Reverend Jacques Fontaine Memoirs

New Series 2. Memoirs of the Reverend Jacques Fontaine, 1658-1728

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Supplied by the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland.

The memoirs of Jaques Fontaine take us to Devonshire and Somerset, after his dramatic escape from France, and then on to Ireland. His enterprise and perseverance in finding a means of support in exile lead him from one venture to another, and we see him at successive locations as a language teacher, shop keeper, cloth manufacturer and running a fish preserving business, before setting up a school in Dublin.

His life was one of struggle against persecution in France, xenophobia and the domination of the established church in England and Ireland, with bloody fights against French pirates and Irish ‘rapparees’ on the wild Cork coast, before his last tranquil years in Dublin.

His memoirs, written for his descendants, many of whom can be found today in America as well as in Britain, can be enjoyed by all as a first hand account of a Huguenot refugee’s experience.

Edited by Dianne W.Ressinger. First published 1992.

£15.00