Marteau:Théocratie du verbe incarné

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This platform, developped by Olaf Simons and Lionel Laborie, is dedicated to the Théocratie du verbe incarné founded by Philippe de Gentil de Langallerie in Amsterdam on 8 October 1715. Langallerie's theocracy sought to raise a Huguenot regiment financed by a network of Jewish merchants to 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.

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 entreprise of the early modern period.