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Title:Bellicose Dove (HB @ PB Price) : Claude Brousson & Protestant Resistance to Louis X1V, 1647-1698
Author:Walter C Utt & Brian E Strayer
ISBN:184519196X : 9781845191962
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:220
Weight: .546 Kg.
Published:Sussex Academic Press - January 2003
List Price: 19.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:European history: c1500 to c1750: Protestantism & Protestant Churches: France


'Bellicose Dove' is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson for 150 years. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698. Unique features of the book include a detailed examination of biographical details in his letters, analysis of the symbolism in his sermons and books (especially his anti-Catholic rhetoric), the importance of his three missionary journeys into France, and the effectiveness of his international diplomatic efforts in England, Holland, and Prussia.

"...well worth the attention of serious scholars of seventeenth-century France." -- Seventeenth-Century News.