The Bellicose Dove
Subtitle: Claude Brousson and Protestant Resistance to Louis XIV 1647-1698
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781903900314
Subjects: Biography: historical; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; c 1600 to c 1700; Brousson, Claude,; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Europe; General; Brousson, Claude; Biography; Religious; 1647-1697; Huguenots
Description: "The Bellicose Dove is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson in 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."--BOOK JACKET.