The Huguenots : France, Exile and Diaspora / edited by Jane McKee and Randolph Vigne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKee, Jane (Rebecca Jane), editor.

Vigne, Randolph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huguenots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brighton, England : Sussex Academic Press, 2013.

Summary:

Examines the situation of French Protestants before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in France and in the countries to which many of them fled during the great exodus which followed the Edict of Fontainebleau, covering a period from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I France

1 Exemplary Narratives of Resistance and the Shaping of a Huguenot Cultural Memory

2 Huguenot Death in the Seventeenth Century: Discourse and Reality

3 The Bible and the Broken Chain: The Huguenots and Freedom of Religion

4 Confessional Conflict and "Turkish" Tolerance? Philippe Canaye, Sieur de Fresnes, Huguenot and Catholic Convert

5 A Londonderry Huguenot Family - Lavie

6 Departure and Exile in the Drelincourt Correspondence

7 Duchess Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse (1639-1722): The Huguenot Grandmother of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland

Part II Exile

8 Through the Eyes of a Spy: Venom and Value in an Enemy's Report on the Huguenot Emigration

9 Women and Children in the Refuge

10 The Economy of Exile: Huguenot Migration from Dieppe to Rotterdam, 1685-1700

11 Huguenots to the Southern Oceans: Archival Fact and Voltairean Myth

12 The Huguenot Offensive against the Camisard Prophets in the English Refuge

13 Exile and Integration in the British Isles: The Case of Catholic Clergymen Converted to Protestantism in the Reign of Louis XIV

Part III Diaspora

14 Député Général in France and in Exile: Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway

15 Pierre des Maizeaux: A Life in Exile

16 The World of J.C. Werndli: Zurich, Sandtoft and Wraisbury

17 Huguenot Readers in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

18 A Literary Journal: Imitator of the Bibliothèque raisonnée?

19 Berlin's Huguenots: Reactions to the French Émigrés and Napoleon's Army of Occupation

20 Between Babylon and Canaan: The Children of the Diaspora and the Story of their Past.

Appendix: List of books printed in Ireland 1700-55, written by Huguenot authors, printed by Huguenot booksellers, or aimed at a Huguenot readership

The Editors and Contributors

Consolidated Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: McKee, Jane The Huguenots

ISBN:

9781837641802

1837641803