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Author Lougee, Carolyn Chappell, author

Title Facing the revocation : Huguenot families, faith, and the king's will / Carolyn Chappell Lougee
Published New York City : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Contents Cover; Facing the€Revocation; Copyright; Contents; Principal Personages; Glossary; Introduction; Part One The Champagné in Saintonge; 1. A Family of the Charentes in Distaff; 2. Faith of the Fathers and Will of the King; 3. Marie in Jeopardy; 4. Aunt Madelene's Offensive; 5. Families Endure; Part Two Escaping from€France; 6. Preparing the Escape; 7. Chancing Escape; Part Three Those Who€Stayed; 8. Thérèse's Guardian; 9. Caring for Thérèse; 10. Cousins; Part Four Resettling€Abroad; 11. Into the Refuge; 12. Experiencing Exile; 13. Marie at the Head of the Family; Conclusion:€History and Story
Afterword:€Retelling the Champagné StoryAppendix:€Family Trees; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Facing the Revocation tells the story of one French Protestant (Huguenot) family, the Champagnés, as they faced the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which criminalized their religion in 1685. In this sweeping family saga, Carolyn Chappell Lougee narrates how the Champagné family's persecution and Protestant devotion unsettled their economic advantages and social standing. The family provides a window onto the choices that individuals and their kin had to make in these trying circumstances, the agency of women within families, and the consequences of their choices. Lougee traces the lives of
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Subject France. Edit de Nantes.
SUBJECT Edit de Nantes (France) fast
Subject Huguenots -- France -- History
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant.
Huguenots
SUBJECT France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051298
France -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051175
Subject France
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016022267
ISBN 9780190241322
0190241322