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�lie Bouh�reau: The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee
É lie BouhÉ reau (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 BouhÉ reau 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 BouhÉ reau traversed and impacted through investigation of his print and manuscript collections.
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�lie Bouh�reau: The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee
É lie BouhÉ reau (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 BouhÉ reau 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 BouhÉ reau traversed and impacted through investigation of his print and manuscript collections.
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�lie Bouh�reau: The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee

�lie Bouh�reau: The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee

�lie Bouh�reau: The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee

�lie Bouh�reau: The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee

Overview

É lie BouhÉ reau (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 BouhÉ reau 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 BouhÉ reau traversed and impacted through investigation of his print and manuscript collections.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781801511292
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Publication date: 04/18/2025
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amy Boylan is assistant librarian of special collections in Marsh’s Library. Jané e Allsman is an Irish Research Council EPS postdoctoral fellow at Marsh’s Library and UCD, working on the Bouhé reau correspondence held at Marsh’s Library.
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