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The Autobiography of a Protestan Condemned to the French Galleys
by Jean Marteilhe
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 9781783468683
Pub Date: 2010-06-14
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Seaforth Publishing
224 Pages
This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, ‘a Protestant condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion’, who, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in...
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