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abjuration, 63, 75, 84, 97n123, 140, 172, 226, 232n100, 248, 253, 257, 261, 265, 266, 267, 274, 278, 279, 286, 313; of children, 188–89; Catholic form of, 257; and marriage, 150, 150n18, 154, 155n35, 159, 159n35, 160n55, 161, 304, 306; and mixed households, 170; in Poitou mission, 98, 99, 100, 101; and relapses, 287, 292n142, 296. See also conversion; La Trémoille, Henri, duc de; La Trémoille, Henri-Charles, prince de Tarente Acarie, Barbe, 199, 230 Acts, 282 Agenais, 106, 162n60 Alba, Jean (minister of Tonneins), 263 Alençon, François de Valois, duc d’, 11 Alsace, 182 amazons, xxxvi, 193, 196, 197, 211, 214, 217, 218, 244, 313; Catherine de Parthenay, duchesse de Rohan, 211–13; Catholic, 230; of Exoudun, 215–17; Mary Ward, 230; Protestant, 210, 211, 237, 245 Amboise, Henri de Clermont, d’, 273, 274, 275, 279 Ambroise de Reims (Capuchin missionary ), 70, 100n130 Amelot (Catholic commissioner in Poitou), 43, 43n110, 44 Amyraut, Moyse, 176, 176n99, 177, 301 Anastase de Nantes (Capuchin missionary ), 69, 79, 80, 82, 95, 100n130 Andrieu, Charles (convert), 258, 273, 275, 283 Ange de Raconis (Capuchin), 77n83, 264 Angoumois, 13n35, 17, 52, 62, 83, 106, 112, 135 Anne of Austria, 179, 195, 226, 226n88, 243, 245 Anselme d’Angers (Capuchin missionary), 69, 73, 81, 100 apostles, 65, 69, 70n65 apostolic tradition, 77; as mark of true Church, 268 Armagnac, Jean d’ (governor of Loudun), 233 Arminians, 176n99, 284 Arnauld, Claude, 127, 128 Aubigné, Agrippa d’, 212, 213 Augé, 109, 115 Augsburg, Confession of, 150n18 Augustine, Saint, 61, 248, 253–56, 285 Aulnay, 14 Aunis, 17, 93n115, 135 Authier, Christophe, 163 Babu, Jean, 206, 207n37 bailliages (Protestant worship in), 5. See also sénéchausées baptism, xxxiii, 151, 257n16; in biconfessional families, 168, 180–83, 276n88; as family ritual, xxviii, xxxvi, 147, 147n10, 168, 190 Bar, Duc de, 152, 153 Barbezieux, 83 Barentin, Jacques-Honoré (intendant), 216, 216n58 Baron, Marie, 230 Baronius, Cardinal Caesar (author of Ecclesiastical Annals), 269 Barth, Fredrik, xxvinn33–34 Cemeteries, Burials, and Confessional Boundries  INDEX  Bas-Poitou, 14 Basville, Nicolas Lamoignon de (intendant ), 140, 311 Béarn, 40, 106, 106n26, 127n73, 219 Belin, Nicolas (minister of Parthenay), 81–82 Benedict, Philip, xixn15, xxn16, 2n3, 12, 147n9, 153n29, 155n35, 181n111 Benoist, Elie, 106, 135, 136, 139, 186, 187, 216, 224, 229, 238, 244, 272, 297 Benoist, René, 255–56, 267 Benoît de La Boulleraye (Capuchin missionary ), 73 Berault, Benoît (convert), 284 Bergerac, Peace of, 5n11 Bible, 76–83, 121, 226, 227n90; women readers of, 199–200, 202. See also Scripture Blain, 211 Blessed Sacrament, 93, 95, 96, 174, 236. See also Eucharist; Real Presence Blessed Sacrament (confraternity), 88 Boisguérin, Marc-Antoine Marreau de (governor of Loudun), 31 Bossatran, Pierre (minister of Niort), 311–13 Bossuet, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne, 201 Bouillon, Duc de, 30n85, 184n123, 223 Bourbon, Catherine de, 153, 255 Bourbon-Lavedan, Jeanne Guichard de, 232 Brazil, 52 Brittany, 106, 174, 219, 255; Estates of, 179 Bunyan, John, 250 Burgundy, 124, 206n36 caisse des économats, 272n72 Calvin, Jean, 11, 68n61, 119, 119n45, 123n61, 149, 209, 277, 286 Calvinism, xviin7, xxxv, 55, 58, 77, 82, 89, 90, 93, 95, 108, 118, 120, 121, 127, 131, 164, 167, 177, 183, 263, 276, 288, 289, 290, 293, 293; and baptism, 180, 182; funerals, 118–26, 141; and grace, 284; and justification by faith, 254, 256, and political rebellion, 61; and sacred space, 106, 107, 137. See also Confession of Faith; Reformed Church Camus, Bishop Jean-Pierre, 49n5, 83 Canada, 52, 53 Capuchins, 22, 36, 41, 43, 51, 52, 168, 200, 207, 229, 231, 262, 264, 265, 273, 273n75, 281, 290, 291, 313; and converts , 96–98, 99–102; and debates with ministers, 78–87; and Forty Hours devotions , 87–99; and Poitou mission, xxxiv, xxxv, 26n73, 51, 51n12, 52, 52n20, 54n25, 56–73, 74, 76, 103, 211, 261; and Ursulines, of Loudun, 235, 235n117, 241, 242n139. See also Molé, Athanase; Clouet, François, Joseph de Paris; Poitou mission Carnival, 89, 173 Casaubon, Isaac, 139 Castelmoron, 113–14 Castres, 6 Catholic Church, xxviiin10, xx, xxxi, 9, 10, 15, 18, 48, 54, 56, 57, 58, 81, 82, 87, 98, 101, 106, 107, 130, 178, 179, 192, 275, 276, 282, 288, 290, 301, 313; apostolic tradition, 77, 80; form of abjuration, 266; and intermarriage, 146–52, 155, 160, 161, 164, 181; and missions, 48–53, 61, 62, 64, 70, 72, 94, 97; policies toward Protestants, xx, xxxi, 10, 139, 140, 158, 191, 227, 247, 315; and nobles, 278–81; notae...

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