Journal by Jean Migault

Jean Migault's diary , actually Journal of Jean Migault ( French : Journal de Jean Migault ), is an autobiographical record of the French teacher and schoolmaster Jean Migault . The work with the memories of Migault, which was actually only intended for his numerous children and was completed by 1702, is considered the "most important testimony to the Huguenot persecution in Poitou ." The work appeared more than 100 years later in various editions and has been translated into various languages.

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• Digital copies :
  • Diary. Fates of a Protestant family from the Poitou before and after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes , German translation of the "Journal", ed. by Philip Sander and Frederick Sander, with a historical introduction and explanatory notes, published by Hirt in Breslau in 1885
  • Journal de Jean Migault or malheurs d'une famille protestante du Poitou, à l'époque de la révocation de l'édit de Nantes. D'après un manuscrit récemment trouvé entre les mains d'un des descendans de l'auteur (in French), Paris: Servier, 1825

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Flick: “The Celler Hof is completely lost” - “You don't see any more Germans there” , article on the Cellesche Zeitung page of June 13, 2010, last accessed on August 6, 2019