My Huguenot Heritage by Anthea Ramsay

My Huguenot Heritage by Anthea Ramsay

A story of persecution and survival brought to life in this biography of the author's Huguenot ancestors, the Le Plastriers.  Taken from family documents, books and letters, the first part of the book tells of the lives of these ancestors and the years of discrimination, they, and Huguenots in general, endured during the French Wars of Religion. Central to the story are the massacres and torture suffered by them at the hands of the Catholic kings, François 1, Charles 1V, and Henri 111, under the influence of their powerful and domineering mother, Catherine de Médicis, and later under Louis X111 and Louis X1V, who revoked of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 when many Huguenots fled.   Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material of the Renaissance period, My Huguenot Heritage shows readers a licentious French court, where grandiose lifestyles alongside poisoning, ambition, treason, and violence were an everyday occurrence.   The second part of the book tells of the experiences of the family after their harrowing escape to England in 1685, and how they survived in a new land having left family, friends and all their worldly goods behind in the country of their birth.

Anthea Ramsay was born and brought up in Kenya but now live with her husband in Surrey. Her first published book, The Forgotten Pioneer, was a biography of her grandfather, who was one of the first white people to set foot in East Africa in 1899. She has always had a keen interest in French history.

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ISBN 13	9781800463042
ISBN 10	1800463049
Titel	My Huguenot Heritage
Autor	Anthea Ramsay
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Troubador Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-05-28
Seitenanzahl	272
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.