The Huguenot Galley-Slave
The Huguenot Galley-Slave

Author: Jean Marteilhe

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781340613549

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The Huguenot Galley-Slave; Being the Autobiography of a French Protestant Condemned to the Galleys for the Sake of His Religion
The Huguenot Galley-Slave; Being the Autobiography of a French Protestant Condemned to the Galleys for the Sake of His Religion

Author: Jean Marteilhe

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781230430805

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... The Autobiography is here resumed DEGREES Iorbier and Rivasson prevented us from I dying of hunger, as I have already said. We 1 knew that they had plenty of money, and the 8 fear that we should be again reduced to starvation after their departure, made me supplicate them with clasped hands to leave us three or four louis d'or. I told them that I would write out an order, so that my father would repay them at Bergerac. But they were so hard-hearted that they would only leave us half a louis, which I gave back to them when we met in the prisons of Lille, in Flanders, a few days before their release. We economized this half louis d'or extremely, eating nothing but bread. However, we had no time to spend it in the parliament prison, for we were transferred to the prison of the town, named Le Beffroi, for the following reasons: The river Scheldt traverses the town of Tournay. On the south side of this river stands the parliament house, and this side is in the diocese of the Archbishopric of Cambrai; the other part of the town, to the north of the river, is in that of the Bishop of Tournay. I have already said that the cure" of the parish in which the prison was situated sometimes came to visit us, rather to see if our opinions on religion were changing, than to exhort us by good reasons to renounce them. The Bishop of Tournay, having heard of the indifference, or, rather, the negligence and ignorance of this cure " in converting us; sent one of his chaplains to visit us. This chaplain was a good old priest, who had more honesty than theology--at least so it seemed to us; for, after having told us that he was sent by the bishop, he added, "it was in order to convert you to the Christian religion." We replied that we were Christians, both by baptism...

The Huguenot Galley-Slave
The Huguenot Galley-Slave

Author: Jean Marteilhe

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781293733684

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