ABSTRACT
Bergerac was an important Huguenot city throughout the seventeenth century, with a minimal Catholic public presence until after the Fronde. Huguenots still constituted about two-thirds of the population at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Protestant sex-ratio variation was not as extreme as in smaller Reformed communities, but they were still discernible in bad times. Catholic commoner sex ratios leapt much higher in the late 1650s, early 1660s and still in the 1670s, before becoming more moderate once the Huguenot nouveaux convertis were blended with them. Even thereafter, periodic high rates of masculinity had statistical significance, particularly in the aftermath of severe famine in the 1690s and after 1710.
