ABSTRACT
In the small town of Layrac we encounter a mixed-confession community where the Protestant majority of 1600 was continually eroded through migration and mixed marriage. Each church kept separate records until the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Protestants were increasingly concentrated among the literate notables as time progressed, but their numbers have little significance studied annually. Among Reformed families, male sex ratios strengthen in the aftermath of the Fronde. Catholic sex ratios, those of commoners in particular, reflect the incidence of periodic famine.
