Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy
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Gallery 2 Les Echelles. A village also An improved road was made in situated on the Guiers, which here 1670, by Duke Charles Emanuel II. descends from the mountains of the of Savoy, at considerable cost, by reGrand Chartreux, to which a road moving vast masses of rock, so as to leads from Les E'chelles. render it passable for carriages. Nainteresting excursion thither is de- poleon, however, with his usual oriscribed in the “ --A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont, the Italian Lakes, and Part of Dauphin () by John Murray |
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Charles Emmanuel II (20 June 1634 – 12 June 1675) was the Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine of France until 1648. He became notorious for his persecution of the Vaudois (Waldensians) culminating in the massacre of 1655. The massacre was so brutal that it prompted the English poet John Milton to write the sonnet On the Late Massacre in Piedmont. Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, called for a general fast in England and proposed to send the British Navy if the massacre was not stopped while gathering funds for helping the Waldensians. Sir Samuel Morland was commissioned with that task. He later wrote The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont (1658).
