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French-Speaking Protestants in Canada
Although French-speaking Canadians have largely been Roman Catholic, there has been a small, but significant Protestant minority among them. This collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field to bring historical perspective on this often misunderstood or forgotten religious minority.
Facing the Revocation
Facing the Revocation tells the story of one French Protestant (Huguenot) family, the Champagnés, as they faced the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which criminalized their religion in 1685. In this sweeping family saga, Carolyn Chappell Lougee narrates how the Champagné family's persecution and Protestant devotion unsettled their economic advantages and social standing. The family provides a window onto the choices that individuals and their kin had to make in these trying circumstances, the agency of women within families, and the consequences of their choices. Lougee traces the lives of the family members who escaped; the kin and community members who decided to stay, both complying with and resisting the king's will; and those who resettled in Britain and Prussia, where they adapted culturally and became influential members of society. It challenges the way Huguenot history has been told for 300 years and thereby offers new insights into the reign of Louis XIV.
The Unseen Terror
From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the chambers of the Jacobin Club. But Paris was only one setting for a national terror which was frequently and painfully felt outside the capital. What happened during these momentous years beyond Paris? How did the revolution spread from the capital and how did it affect people living in the provinces? Drawing on newly discovered and unpublished sources which cast fresh light on the lives of everyday men and women caught up in the...
The Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685
This vol. has been built upon all of the known parish register & census evidence bearing upon the changing size of France's Huguenot population over the course of the period between the Edict of Nantes & its Revocation -- specifically, upon census figures or annual totals of baptisms for any Protestant church or community for which such evidence spans 40 or more years of the cent. This national investigation is offered in the hope that it can help to stimulate more of the detailed local studies of individual Protestant communities & of the relations between their members & their Catholic neighbors that are needed to illuminate these variations, as well as to highlight those regions where such studies might be particularly fruitful. Charts & tables.
Le roman de Perceforest
Immense composition anonyme en prose, le roman de Perceforest est une des plus belles reussites litteraires de la fin du Moyen Age. En une grandiose fresque divisee en six parties, il evoque les aventures des lointains ancetres dArthur et des chevaliers de la Table Ronde. Dans ce volume, limagination exuberante du romancier ne connait pas de relache. Perceforest sombre dans une longue prostration et Gadiffer est rendu infirme pour le reste de ses jours. Zephir, le lutin malicieux, se divertit aux depens dEstonne. Il le fait assister a une etonnante scene de sabbat dont les protagonistes sont de vieilles sorcieres barbues. Peleon, le chevalier malheureux prive de raison, retrouve enfin son amie Dache et Lyonnel multiplie les exploits pour se rendre digne de lamour de Blanche. Apres la publication de la Quatrieme partie et de la Troisieme partie, Gilles Roussineau poursuit ledition de loeuvre. Le texte est assorti dun important choix de variantes, de nombreuses notes et dun glossaire developpe.
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An Infinite History
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract for her daughter, signed by eighty-three people in Angoulême. Who was Marie Aymard? Who were all these people? And why were they together on a dark afternoon in December 1764...
