The Lous Paillous cypress

Marker 14Lous Paillous consists exclusively of agricultural buildings. The silhouette of the cypress, in the shape of a spearhead, indicates the presence of a Protestant family cemetery. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), Protestantism was no longer legal in France, and those Protestants who refused to convert buried their dead on their land. That tradition has continued up to today, although Protestantism was once again recognised at the end of the 18th century. Sometimes the presence of a grave is indicated only by two simple schist slabs stuck into the soil, one near the head of the deceased person, the other near the feet.