{"product_id":"2940013252936","title":"Saint Bartholomew's Eve","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  1: Driven From Home.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  2: An Important Decision.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  3: In A French Chateau.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  4: An Experiment.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  5: Taking The Field.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  6: The Battle Of Saint Denis.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  7: A Rescue.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  8: The Third Huguenot War.\u003cbr\u003eChapter  9: An Important Mission.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: The Queen Of Navarre.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Jeanne Of Navarre.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: An Escape From Prison.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: At Laville.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: The Assault On The Chateau.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: The Battle Of Jarnac.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: A Huguenot Prayer Meeting.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: The Battle Of Moncontor.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: A Visit Home.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: In A Net.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20: The Tocsin.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: Escape.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22: Reunited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Driven From Home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the year 1567 there were few towns in the southern counties of\u003cbr\u003eEngland that did not contain a colony, more or less large, of\u003cbr\u003eFrench Protestants. For thirty years the Huguenots had been exposed\u003cbr\u003eto constant and cruel persecutions; many thousands had been\u003cbr\u003emassacred by the soldiery, burned at the stake, or put to death\u003cbr\u003ewith dreadful tortures. Fifty thousand, it was calculated, had, in\u003cbr\u003espite of the most stringent measures of prevention, left their\u003cbr\u003ehomes and made their escape across the frontiers. These had settled\u003cbr\u003efor the most part in the Protestant cantons of Switzerland, in\u003cbr\u003eHolland, or England. As many of those who reached our shores were\u003cbr\u003ebut poorly provided with money, they naturally settled in or near\u003cbr\u003ethe ports of landing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCanterbury was a place in which many of the unfortunate emigrants\u003cbr\u003efound a home. Here one Gaspard Vaillant, his wife, and her sister,\u003cbr\u003ewho had landed in the year 1547, had established themselves. They\u003cbr\u003ewere among the first comers, but the French colony had grown,\u003cbr\u003egradually, until it numbered several hundreds. The Huguenots were\u003cbr\u003ewell liked in the town, being pitied for their misfortunes, and\u003cbr\u003eadmired for the courage with which they bore their losses; setting\u003cbr\u003eto work, each man at his trade if he had one, or if not, taking to\u003cbr\u003ethe first work that came to hand. They were quiet and God-fearing\u003cbr\u003efolk; very good towards each other, and to their poor countrymen on\u003cbr\u003etheir way from the coast to London, entertaining them to the best\u003cbr\u003eof their power, and sending them forward on their way with letters\u003cbr\u003eto the Huguenot committee in London, and with sufficient money in\u003cbr\u003etheir pockets to pay their expenses on the journey, and to maintain\u003cbr\u003ethem for a while until some employment could be found for them.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079365378288,"sku":"2940013252936","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013252936_p0.jpg?v=1763578871","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013252936","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}