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This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, 'a Protestant condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion', who, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, attempted, like so many French Huguenots, to escape to the more sympathetic Protestant countries bordering France. In 1700, heading through the Ardennes towards Charleroi, he was captured by French Dragoons and thrown into gaol. In 1707 he then found himself, like so many Huguenots, condemned to serve in the French Mediterranean galleys. Little is known of life as a galley slave on these oared vessels. Certainly no accounts have come down to us from ancient Greece or Rome, though a little is known from the time of the Crusades. So Marteilhe's racy account represents the only authentic record of the miseries of a galley slave who experienced all the horrors of 'whips and chains' and the dreaded 'bastinado' - foot whipping. For six years he pulled his oar, often seeing friends and co-religionists lashed - sometimes to death - under the whips of the overseers. He himself sustained almost fatal injuries in a bloody engagement with the British off the mouth of the Thames before being released under a general amnesty in 1713. Galley Slave brings vividly to life the sufferings and conditions on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century galleys and is a unique and unforgettable account.
- Sales Rank: #2350482 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Naval Inst Pr
- Published on: 2010-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.10" h x 1.00" w x 4.70" l, .60 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 210 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Jean Marteilhe was born in 1684 into a Huguenot family, just one year before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Captured while trying to leave France in 1700, he was to be subjected to six years as a galley slave. He published his memoir France in 1757 and died in Holland in 1770.
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A vivid, eye-witness account of what the lives (and deaths) of galley slaves were like
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A major publisher of military histories and biographies, the Naval Institute Press is also the American distributor of Seaforth Publishing's 'Seafarers' Voices' series, of which volume one "Galley Slave: The Autobiography of a Protestant Condemned to the French Galleys" and volume two "A Privateer's Voyage Round the World" are now available. Jean Marteilhe's "Galley Slave" is the memoir of a French Protestant who was condemned for his faith to serve as a galley slave in the early 18th Century and provides a vivid, eye-witness account of what the lives (and deaths) of galley slaves were like. George Shelvocke's "A Privateer's Voyage Round The World" is the personal story of buccaneering in the South Seas where the distinction between pirate outlaw and legally sanctioned privateer was often blurred -- and sometimes non-existent. Both of these outstanding and highly recommended volumes are deftly abridged and edited for modern readers by Vincent McInerney, making them enthusiastically recommended acquisitions for personal, community, and academic library reference collections and reading lists.
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