The Huguenot Galley-slave
Author : Jean Marteilhe
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Huguenots
ISBN :
Author : Jean Marteilhe
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Huguenots
ISBN :
Author : Jean Marteilhe
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Huguenots
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Author : Jean Martielhe
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 2011-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780982804346
The Huguenot Galley Slaves, from the Memoirs of Jean Martielhe. The captivating true story of Jean Martielhe, who, at sixteen, was forced to flee home and country in search of religious freedom. In the year 1700, a fresh revival of persecution against the Huguenots was storming across southern France under the command of the Duke de la Force. King Louis XIV had issued the infamous "Revocation of the Edict of Nantes" in 1685 and 15 years later, still finding no end to the number of adherents to the Reformed faith, unleashed yet another wave of dragoonades in a determined effort to abolish Protestantism and unite France under Pope, creed, and King. Bibles were burned, children were taken from their parents, conversions were forced by every means, and the citizens were subjected to outrages, torture, and death. Such an unbridled fury against the Protestants excited an exodus of France's most productive and pious citizens, and no further threat of penalty, imprisonment, slavery for life, torture, or execution, could stop it. Follow our young Christian as he perseveres through imprisonments, attempts to bring him to renounce his faith, and ultimately his enslavement on the French Royal Galleys.
Author : Edward Arber
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 1908
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Henry M. Baird
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 1895
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Jean Marteilhe
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Huguenots
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Smiles
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Huguenots
ISBN :
Author : Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Huguenots
ISBN :
Author : Jean Marteilhe
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1783468688
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 1685, attempted, like so many French Huguenots, to escape to the more sympathetic Protestant countries bordering France. In 1700, heading through the Ardennes towards Charleroi, he was captured by French Dragoons and thrown into gaol.In 1707 he then found himself, like so many Huguenots, condemned to serve in the French Mediterranean galleys. Little is known of life as a galley slave on these oared vessels. Certainly no accounts have come down to us from ancient Greece or Rome, though a little is known from the time of the Crusades. So Marteilhes racy account represents the only authentic record of the miseries of a galley slave who experienced all the horrors of whips and chains and the dreaded bastinado—foot whipping.For six years he pulled his oar, often seeing friends and co-religionists lashed—sometimes to death—under the whips of the overseers. He himself sustained almost fatal injuries in a bloody engagement with the British off the mouth of the Thames before being released under a general amnesty in 1713.Galley Slave brings vividly to life the sufferings and conditions on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century galleys and is a unique and unforgettable account.
Author : Jean Marteilhe
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781293733684
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