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(called Desuhas, from his birth-place), a young Huguenot minister, "the martyr of Vernoux," was a pastor at Vivanais, who, having attended the national synod of Bas-Languedoc, August 18, 1744, was arrested for treason February 1 following, and despite the entreaties of his parishioners, was executed February 2, 1746, on the esplanade of Montpellier, at the age of twenty-six years. See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.