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Arnaud was born on September 20, 1641 in Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, France. About 1650 his family returned to their native valley of Luserna. His parents were the Calvinist Embrun Arno and Waldenka Marguerite Gozio (Gosio).
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Henri Arnaud
Edit ProfileEducation
Arnaud was educated at La Tour (the chief village), later visiting the college at Basel (1662 and 1668) and the Academy at Geneva (1666).
He also studied theology in Switzerland.
Career
After studying Arnaud returned to Piedmont and established himself as pastor at Torre Pellice (1685), where he led the resistance of the Waldensians against the persecution of Protestants that was inaugurated by Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy.
Eventually, Arnaud returned to Switzerland, where, with help from William III of Orange, he rallied the Waldensian exiles.
In 1689, encouraged by William’s accession to the English throne, Arnaud decided on a third attempt to return to Piedmont. The exiles met with resistance, but their successful and vigorous mountain warfare impressed Victor Amadeus, who, in June 1690, made peace with the Waldenses in return for their fighting on the Savoyard side against the French during the War of the Grand Alliance.
After Savoy made peace with France (1696), however, the persecution of the Waldenses was renewed, and, in July 1698, about 3, 000 of them were forced into exile.
Arnaud then founded a Waldensian settlement at Schönenberg in Württemberg, where he introduced the cultivation of alfalfa and mulberries.
Between 1704 and 1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Waldenses were again tolerated by Savoy in return for support against France, and Arnaud returned to Piedmont.
In 1707 Arnaud visited England to obtain funds for his coreligionists and then returned to Schönenberg.
It was during his retirement that he compiled from various documents by other hands his Histoire de la glorieuse rentrée des Vaudois dans leurs vallées, which was published (probably at Kassel) in 1710, with a dedication to Queen Anne. It was translated into English (1827) by H. Dyke Acland, and has also appeared in German and Dutch versions. A part of the original MS. is preserved in the Royal Library in Berlin.
He died at Schönenberg, which was the church hamlet of the parish of Durrmenz, in 1721.
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Henri Arnaud was a pastor of the Waldensians in Piedmont, who turned soldier in order to rescue, and who did rescue, his co-religionists from their dispersion under the persecution of Victor Amadeus II the Duke of Savoy. When the Waldensians were exiled a second time, Arnaud accompanied them in their exile to Schönenberg, and continued to act as their pastor until his death.
In memory of Henri Arnaud, several monuments have been installed, including in Rutesåme, Dürrenmertz and Torre-Pellic.
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Histoire De La Rentree Des Vaudois Dans Leurs Vallees Du Piemont (1845) (French Edition)
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Histoire De La Glorieuse Rentrée Des Vaudois Dans Leurs Valées, Où L'on Voit Une Troupe De Ces Gens, Qui N'a Jamais Été Jusqu'à Mile Personnes, ... Le Duc De Savoye...... (French Edition)
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Histoire De La Rentree Des Vaudois Dans Leurs Vallees Du Piemont (1845) (French Edition)
Religion
Henri Arnaud is among the later Waldensians who had joined the Protestant Reformation in Geneva.
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- Patois Des Alpes Cottiennes; Brianconnais Et Vallees Vaudoises; Et En Particulier Du Queyras (French Edition)
- Henri Arnaud, Pfarrer Und Kriegsoberster Der Waldenser: Ein Lebensbild Nach Den Quellen Untersucht Und Dargestellt Mit 12 Noch Ungedruckten Urkunden (German Edition)
- Henri Arnaud, Pfarrer und Oberst bei den Waldensern: Eine Biographie (German Edition)
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Waldensians