Élie Bouhéreau : the collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee / Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boylan, Amy, 1970- Editor.

Allsman, Janée, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Librarians--Ireland--Biography.

Librarians.

Huguenots--Ireland.

Huguenots.

Bouhéreau, Élie, 1643-1719.

Bouhéreau, Élie.

Marsh's Library.

Physical Description:

224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Élie Bouhéreau (1643– 1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes Bouhéreau fled France, and the personal library and correspondence of this brilliant refugee wended their way through Europe to become one of the formative collections of Marsh’ s Library, Dublin, where he served as Ireland’ s first public librarian. This volume explores the worlds Bouhéreau traversed and impacted through investigation of his print and manuscript collections." --Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Amy Boylan and Janée Allsman

Part I: Context. Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719): a biographical sketch / Jean-Paul Pittion

La Rochelle, notre commune patrie’: the world of the Rochelais Huguenots before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes / Muriel Hoareau

Part II: Community Creations. John Locke and Élie Bouhéreau: an encounter / Geoff Kemp

Abraham Tessereau’s miscellany: Huguenot history-writing during the reign of Louis XIV / David van der Linden

Psalms and sonnets in the correspondence between Élie Bouhéreau and Laurent Drelincourt / Jane McKee

Religion and the singing of psalms: Huguenot worship music in eighteenth-century Dublin / Eleanor Jones-McAuley

Part III: Ecomonics and diplomacy of exile. The envoy’s wife: diplomatic sociability, family, and loss in the diary (1689–1719) of Élie Bouhéreau / Amy Prendergast

Managing money in early modern Ireland: the financial accounting of Élie Bouhéreau, 1689–1717 / Charles Ivar McGrath

Financial agent, secretary, protégé: Bouhéreau and the earl of Galway / Marie Léoutre

Part IV: Loss, return, and reconstruction. The lost notebooks of Élie Bouhéreau: reading, recording, and retrieving in the seventeenth century / Noreen Humble

The peregrinations of the archives of the Reformed Church of La Rochelle / Didier Poton

Stealing and selling Dr Bouhéreau’s books in the long eighteenth century / Jason McElligott

Notes:

"This book is the fruit of an international conference held 15-17 November 2019 at Marsh's Library in Dublin entitled 'Élie Bouhéreau & the World of the Huguenots.' --Acknowledgments, page 9.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1801511292

9781801511292

OCLC:

1419441095

Publisher Number:

90102618411

CIPO000153971