The Huguenots in France: After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; With a Visit to the Country of the Vaudois (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Smiles, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331327873 ISBN 13 : 9781331327875

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Six years since, I published a book entitled The Huguenots: their Settlements, Churches, and Industries, in England and Ireland. Its object was to give an account of the causes which led to the large migrations of foreign Protestants from Flanders and France into England, and to describe their effects upon English industry as well as English history. It was necessary to give a brief résumé of the history of the Reformation in France down to the dispersion of the Huguenots, and the suppression of the Protestant religion by Louis XIV. under the terms of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Under that Act, the profession of Protestantism was proclaimed to be illegal, and subject to the severest penalties. Hence, many of the French Protestants who refused to be "converted," and had the means of emigrating, were under the necessity of leaving France and endeavouring to find personal freedom and religious liberty elsewhere.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism", and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1331327873
• ISBN 13: 9781331327875
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 406