Editing Alès (section)

==History==
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Alès may be the modern successor of '''Arisitum''', where, in about 570, [[Sigebert I|Sigebert]], King of [[Austrasia]], created a [[bishopric]]. In his campaign against the [[Visigoths]], the [[Merovingian dynasty|Merovingian]] king [[Theudebert I]] (533–548) conquered part of the territory of the Diocese of Nîmes. His later successor Sigebert set up the new diocese, comprising fifteen parishes in the area controlled by the [[Franks]], which included a number of towns to the north of the [[Cevenne]]: Alès, [[Le Vigan, Gard|Le Vigan]], [[Arre, Gard|Arre]], [[Arrigas]], [[Meyrueis]], [[Saint-Jean-du-Gard]], [[Anduze]], and [[Vissec]]. The diocese disappeared in the 8th century with the conquest of the whole of [[Septimania]] by the Franks.<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Louis |last=Saltet |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5675532m/f223.image.r= |title=L'évêché d'Arisitum |journal=Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique, publié par l'Institut Catholique de Toulouse| volume=7–8 |date=1902 |pages=220–231 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Louis |last=Duchesne |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k107955h/f325.image |title=Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule |volume=I |location=Paris |date=1907 |pages=316–317 |language=fr}}</ref> No longer a residential bishopric, Arisitum is today listed by the [[Catholic Church]] as a [[titular see]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 839</ref>

After the [[Edict of Nantes]], Alès was one of the ''places de sûreté'' given to the [[Huguenots]]. [[Louis XIII]] took back the town in 1629, and the [[Peace of Alès]], signed on 29 June of that year, suppressed the political privileges of the Protestants, while continuing to guarantee toleration.<ref name="EB1911"/>

At the request of [[Louis XIV]], a see was again created at Alais by [[Pope Innocent XII]], in 1694. The future [[Cardinal de Bausset]], [[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet|Bossuet]]'s biographer, was Bishop of Alais from 1784 to 1790.<ref name="EB1911"/>  It was suppressed after the [[French Revolution]], and its territory was divided between the [[diocese of Avignon]] and the [[diocese of Mende]].