Jean Marteilhe ; edited with an introduction by Vincent McInerney.
Barnsley
Seaforth
2010
xii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Seafarers' voices, 1
Introduction --; Foreword: A description of a galley, its crew, and method of fighting --; 1. Flight and capture 1700-1701 --; 2. The prisons at Tournay [Tournai] and Lille --; 3. To Dunkirk [Dunkerque] and the galley chain 1702 --; 4. Incidents at the galleys, Dunkirk 1703-1705 --; 5. We almost perish in a great storm, Dunkirk 1707 --; 6. Our galley destroyed, the crew massacred, Dunkirk 1708 --; 7. At Dunkirk 1709 --; 8. We are removed with great torments from the galleys at Dunkirk to those at Marseilles 1712 --; 9. The last of the chains 1713.
A ... first hand account of a galley slave in the early eighteenth century, written by a French Protestant who was subjected to harrowing conditions and murderous toil. all for the sake of his beliefs.--Back cover.
Mémoires d'un protestant.
Galley slaves -- France -- Biography.
Huguenots -- France -- Biography.
Marteilhe, Jean, -- 1684-1777.
Jean Marteilhe ; edited with an introduction by Vincent McInerney.