1686 Life of Gaspard de Coligny French Huguenot France Catholic Protestant WARS

1686 Life of Gaspard de Coligny French Huguenot France Catholic Protestant WARS

Gaspard de Coligny was a 16^th-century French Huguenot leader whose leadership played an important role in the French Wars of Religion against the Protestants. A century later, author and historian Gatien de Sandras wrote a biographical sketch of the life of Gaspard de Coligny – a work which focused on the feuds between Catholics and Protestants in 16^th-century France.

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SANDRAS, Gatien Courtilz de

La vie de Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Chastillon sur Loin, gouverneur pour le roi de l’Isle de France & de Picardie …

Cologne : Pierre Marteau, 1686. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 402
• References: Barbier IV, 970
• Provenance:
  • Armorial Bookplate – M. Bruen
    • Likely Rev. Matthias Bruen (1793-1829), a Presbyterian minister in New York City. Bruen was a founder of the Bleecker Street Presbyterian Church in lower Manhattan, formally chartered in 1825, and served as the first Minister of that church until his death. His direct ancestor, Obadiah Bruen, was one of the founders of Newark after immigrating from England in 1640. Motto: FIDES SCUTUM
  • Handwritten – Louisa Bruen
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~6.5in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 10.5cm)

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