sentences:  The peasant fighters called “Camisards” who struggled against the French crown were also known as “Cévenols” after the rugged, mountainous terrain that facilitated the small group's ability to resist the much larger forces arrayed against them.In the 1930s, this long-standing regional tradition of resistance and hospitality to refugees became essential to the school's beginnings.In May 1938, at a regional synod of the French église réformée (the Reformed Church of France, historically the primary Protestant council in France), pastor André Trocmé, then assigned to the Protestant church in Chambon, proposed the creation of a new secondary school.