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Élie Bouhéreau

The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee

Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors

Hardback €49.50
Catalogue Price: €55
ISBN: 978-1-80151-129-2
April 2025. 256 pages. Colour Ills.

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: ECONOMICS 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