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In From a Far Country Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. The Camisard religion was marked by more ecstatic expression than that of the Huguenots, not unlike differences between Pentecostals and Protestants. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Randall vividly portrays this French Protestant diaspora through the lives of three figures: Gabriel Bernon, who led a Huguenot exodus to Massachu...
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In this powerful and moving narrative, J. Morin recounts the life and suffering of Elias Neau, a Huguenot refugee who was imprisoned in the galleys of Marseilles for his religious beliefs. Through his vivid descriptions of Neau's experiences, Morin sheds light on the harsh realities of life for Huguenot refugees in France. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in religious history, persecution, or the history of France. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
"A bibliography of some works relating to the Huguenot refugees, whence they came, where they settled": v. 1, pp. 130-149.
The authors of the 16 essays collected in this volume use a variety of approaches to study a broad range of what are now called 'ego-documents' from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century.