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Saint-Etienne, Rabaut

 
9781331384908: The Old Cevenol (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

A dramatic historical portrait of courage under persecution in 17th‑century France, and the human cost of religious intolerance. This edition presents The Old Cevenol, a narrative that follows Ambroise Borely and his family through the brutal executions and forced conversions of Louis XIV’s reign. It blends testimony, legal arguments, and personal resolve to illuminate a chapter of the Edict of Nantes’ revocation and its aftermath.

Set against the backdrop of the Cevennes, the book traces a student of hardship who endures famine, torture, and the threat of ruin as he tries to defend his wife’s memory and protect his child. The narrative moves from violent suppression to the quieter, stubborn courage of those who sought to preserve their faith and dignity. It also shows how law, power, and conscience collide in a time when citizens faced brutal penalties for steps as simple as gathering to pray.

- Learn how one family navigated a system that mixed royal decree with daily fear.
- See how legal opinions and moral arguments framed a desperate struggle for legitimacy and inheritance.
- Explore the tension between state authority and individual rights in early modern Europe.
- Understand the human cost of persecution and the endurance of faith.

Ideal for readers of historical biographies and religious history who want a clear, tightly told account of a pivotal, troubled era and the people who lived through it.

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Reseña del editor

Excerpt from The Old Cevenol

I am glad that the editor of the Christian Standard proposes to publish such literature as will acquaint Christians in America with the noble struggles of French Christians against the Papacy. There are two periods especially that will form instructive and timely reading. The period of the Albigensian persecution, and the period during the validity of the Edict of Nantes, and for a hundred years subsequent to its revocation.

The story of "The Old Cevenol" is one of the most popular works in the Sunday-school libraries of the Protestant churches of France. It was written by Rabaut Saint-Etienne, a famous and eloquent Protestant preacher, and the son of a preacher - Paul Rabaut - whose faithful ministry to "The Church of the Desert," as a colleague of that apostolic man, Antoine Court, marks him as one of the most valiant of the heroic defenders of the faith in those tragic days. The first edition of the book was published about ten years before the great French Revolution, and consequently during a period when the infamous persecuting laws stained the statute-book of France. "The Old Cevenol" is a story. Ambroise Borely is a fictitious hero, but the story is a faithful description of the experiences endured by Christians in France under the "Revocation." I believe the book has been translated into English. I have not seen the English edition.

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9780483392373: The Old Cevenol (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10:  0483392375 ISBN 13:  9780483392373
Editorial: Forgotten Books, 2019
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