The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents
- ISBN-10
- 1973804395
- ISBN-13
- 9781973804390
- Series
- The Refugees
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-07-22
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Description
The Refugees is the 1893 historical fiction novel by the Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The two principle protagonists are Amory de Catinat and Amos Green, A Huguenot guardsman and an American respectively. The plot revolves around the marriage of King Louis XIV's marriage to Madame de Maintenon as well as the revoking of the Edict of Nantes and the eventual emigration of the Huguenots to America. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
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