A Tale of the Huguenots, or Memoirs of a French Refugee Family: Translated and Compiled From the Original Manuscripts of James Fontaine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Tale of the Huguenots, or Memoirs of a French Refugee Family: Translated and Compiled From the Original Manuscripts of James FontaineIn the friendly confidence growing out of paro chial relations, the existence of this manuscript be came known to the writer of this introduction. Curiosity led to its examination; the strange and interesting nature of the incidents it recorded, related as they were with unpretending simplicity, soon fixed his attention It struck him as being a vivid picture of by-gone times sketched by an honest eye witness and the page of past history thus illustrated was not the least interesting in the records of Protestantism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.