Crossword-Solution: PASTORALES 10 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The strong, full-blooded men of the seventeenth century; the apoplectic court at Versailles (where Fagon's lancet played so necessary a part); the generals and ministers who harassed the Protestants and burned the Palatinate--all these loved pastorales.

Just why these arbitrary pastorales should suggest meads and syrinxes, and dancing shepherds, it would be hard to tell.

Basnage had welcomed the revival of the Protestant church due to the zeal of Antoine Court; but he assured the regent that no danger of active resistance was to be feared from it, and, true to the principles of Calvin, he denounced the rebellion of the Camisards (_q.v._) in his _Instructions pastorales aux Réformés de France sur l'obéissance due aux souverains_ (Paris, 1720), which was printed by order of the court and scattered broadcast in the south of France.

Estudio de Antropologia_ (San Sebastian, 1889); and the same author's _Existe una raza Euskara? Sus caracteres antropologicos_ (1905); _La Tradition au pays basque_ (Paris, 1899), (a collection of papers by local authorities); Julien Vinson, _Les Basques et le pays basque_ (Paris, 1882), a sufficient survey for the general reader; the same author's _Le Folk-Lore du pays basque_ (Paris, 1883), treats of the Pastorales and embraces the whole Folk-Lore; _Le Codex de Saint-Jacques de Compostella_, lib.

The _Lettres pastorales_ of Jurieu (Rotterdam, 1686-1687), a series of brief tracts which were secretly circulated in France, continued to narrate events and prodigies in which the author saw the intervention of God, and thus strengthened the courage of his adherents.