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The platform is developped by Olaf Simons and [[User:Lionel Laborie|Lionel Laborie]]. It compiles data from manuscript and printed primary sources in an attempt to reconstruct Langallerie's international, theocratic network, and reconnect hundreds of individuals across national, linguistic and religious boundaries. The platform is developped by Olaf Simons and [[User:Lionel Laborie|Lionel Laborie]]. It compiles data from manuscript and printed primary sources in an attempt to reconstruct Langallerie's international, theocratic network, and reconnect hundreds of individuals across national, linguistic and religious boundaries.
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This platform is dedicated to the Théocratie du verbe incarné founded by Philippe de Gentil de Langallerie in Amsterdam on 8 October 1715. Langallerie's Theocracy was deeply influenced by the millenarian writings of Pierre Jurieu, Claude Brousson and the Camisard Prophets, who all regarded the persecution of French Protestants as a divine trial announcing great things to come, based on their interpretation of Biblical prophecies.

The Theocracy sought to raise a Huguenot regiment serve in the Ottoman army against Rome and the Empire. Its aim was to overthrow the Pope –the Antichrist– and ultimately precipitate Christ's Second Coming. Thanks to the financial support of Jewish merchants, Langallerie progressively built his own network from 1711, which expanded over Germany, Poland, the Dutch Republic, Switzerland and Turkey,

More than just another Huguenot utopia, Langallerie signed a treaty with a Turkish diplomat in March 1716 to form a military alliance with Contstantinople. In return for his services, Langallerie would take control of the Mediterranean Sea and become king of Malta, whilst his two associates, le Comte de Linange and Henri de Boisbellaud de Montacier de Lislemarais, would establish a Protestant colony in Madagascar thanks to two Dutch prostitutes.

Langallerie and Linange were eventually arrested in Stade and Aurich in June 1716 on an Imperial warrant, thus axing one of the most ambitious, yet little known, millenarian entreprises of the early modern period.


The platform is developped by Olaf Simons and Lionel Laborie. It compiles data from manuscript and printed primary sources in an attempt to reconstruct Langallerie's international, theocratic network, and reconnect hundreds of individuals across national, linguistic and religious boundaries.