Author: Grubb, Arthur Page
Title: Jean Cavalier - Baker's Boy And British General
Description: George Allen & Unwin, 1931, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 251pp, b/w frontis, 3 b/w plates, folding b/w map, index, dustjacket a little chipped along the edges & a little grubby, cloth faded where the dustjacket is chipped, but generally a nice copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A biography of Jean Cavalier [ 1681 - 1740 ], the Huguenot chief of the Camisards, protestant peasants who raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal. A few thousand men under Cavalier's command kept the armies of the King of France at bay for years.

Keywords: french history, military history, huguenot, protestants,