Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet

New Series 4. Memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet 1632-1709, a gentleman of Normandy

Ref: HUG-07

Supplied by the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland.

Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet (1632-1709), a member of the Protestant nobility of Normandy, led a pleasure-filled life as a scion of his house, through college at Saumur, Foubert’s riding academy and a brief military career, with happy marriages and the births of a large family.

There were dark times too, widowerhood and a disastrous fire at his main country house. All of this was overshadowed when, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes he realised, despite his earlier incredulity, that there was no escaping the dragonnade about to be let loose on the Huguenots of Normandy.

Dumont’s memoir, written in exile, brings his years in France also vividly to life. It takes us through the drama of the family’s escape to Holland, and charts his own military career during his years in exile, ending with his retirement in Ireland. Of particular interest are his graphic accounts of the Battle of the Boyne and the siege of Limerick.

Edited by Dianne W.Ressinger. First published 2005.

£15.00