The Bellicose Dove: Claude Brousson and Protestant Resistance to Louis XIV, 1647-1698

BELLICOSE DOVE is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson in 150 years. It examines his life (1647-1698), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698. As a critical, scholarly biography, The Bellicose Dove revises the apologetic picture painted by 19th-century writers of Brousson as a pious pacifist. It explores his flirtation with treas...