Abdias Maurel (before 1702 – 22 April 1705), Camisard leader, who became a cavalry officer in the French army and gained distinction in Italy.
He refused to accept the peace made by Jean Cavalier in 1704, and after passing a few weeks in Switzerland he returned to France and became one of the chiefs of those Camisards who were still in arms.
[1] He was deeply involved in a plot to capture some French towns, a scheme which, it was hoped, would be helped by England and the Dutch Republic.
But it failed; Maurel was betrayed, and with three other leaders of the movement was burned to death at Nîmes on 22 April 1705.
[1] According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, "[h]e was a man of great physical strength; but he was very cruel, and boasted he had killed 200 Roman Catholics with his own hands.