Angelets

The Angelets, or “Angelets of the Land” (in Catalan, “Angelets de la Terra”), were peasants who rose up in peasant revolts from 1667 to 1675 against the French authorities in Roussillon; the group of conflicts of the period is called the Revolt of the Angelets. The cause was the institution of the gabelle, a tax on salt, in 1661—a measure contrary to traditional constitutions of the earldoms (the earldoms of Roussillon and Cerdanya, both lands of the Principality of Catalonia from 1172 to 1659). The revolt first concerned the county of Vallespir, then it spread to those of Conflent and Roussillon.