Élie Bouhéreau : the collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee / Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors.

Other author Boylan, Amy, 1970- editor.
Other author Allsman, Janée, editor.
Format Book
PublicationDublin : Four Courts Press, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Description224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Amy Boylan and Janée Allsman -- Part I: Context. Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719): a biographical sketch / Jean-Paul Pittion -- La Rochelle, notre commune patrie’: the world of the Rochelais Huguenots before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes / Muriel Hoareau -- Part II: Community Creations. John Locke and Élie Bouhéreau: an encounter / Geoff Kemp -- Abraham Tessereau’s miscellany: Huguenot history-writing during the reign of Louis XIV / David van der Linden -- Psalms and sonnets in the correspondence between Élie Bouhéreau and Laurent Drelincourt / Jane McKee -- Religion and the singing of psalms: Huguenot worship music in eighteenth-century Dublin / Eleanor Jones-McAuley -- Part III: Ecomonics and diplomacy of exile. The envoy’s wife: diplomatic sociability, family, and loss in the diary (1689–1719) of Élie Bouhéreau / Amy Prendergast -- Managing money in early modern Ireland: the financial accounting of Élie Bouhéreau, 1689–1717 / Charles Ivar McGrath -- Financial agent, secretary, protégé: Bouhéreau and the earl of Galway / Marie Léoutre -- Part IV: Loss, return, and reconstruction. The lost notebooks of Élie Bouhéreau: reading, recording, and retrieving in the seventeenth century / Noreen Humble -- The peregrinations of the archives of the Reformed Church of La Rochelle / Didier Poton -- Stealing and selling Dr Bouhéreau’s books in the long eighteenth century / Jason McElligott
Abstract "Élie Bouhéreau (1643– 1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes Bouhéreau fled France, and the personal library and correspondence of this brilliant refugee wended their way through Europe to become one of the formative collections of Marsh’ s Library, Dublin, where he served as Ireland’ s first public librarian. This volume explores the worlds Bouhéreau traversed and impacted through investigation of his print and manuscript collections." --Jacket.
General note"This book is the fruit of an international conference held 15-17 November 2019 at Marsh's Library in Dublin entitled 'Élie Bouhéreau & the World of the Huguenots.' --Acknowledgments, page 9.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781801511292
ISBN1801511292