Huguenot martyr, born in Nîmes in 1647. He was educated for the law, and practiced in Toulouse with marked success. He denounced the persecution of the Huguenots, and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, his house became the refuge and rendezvous of leaders of the sect. These meetings led to an outbreak in Toulouse, and Brousson was compelled to flee to Switzerland. In Lausanne he was consecrated to the ministry, and returned to France, and at the risk of his life preached in the caves of the Cévennes, these meetings becoming famous as the assemblées du désert. In 1693 he went to Holland, and after traveling through Europe in the cause of the Protestants, he re-entered France from the Jura Mountains and commenced to preach as he had done before, but he was captured, conveyed to Montpellier in 1697, tried on a charge of treasonable conspiracy with the Duke of Schomberg to invade France, and was condemned and broken on the wheel on the 4th of November 1698. He was the author of L’État des Réformés de France (1684); Relation Sommaire des Merveilles que Dieu Fait en France dans les Cévennes (1694); La Manne Mystique du Désert (1695); besides Letters, addressed to the clergy of France and Europe.
