Huguenots au grand large
In the sixteenth century, the Huguenots participated in colonial efforts in Antarctic France in Brazil, in Guanabara Bay or Rio de Janeiro (1555-1560), and in Florida, during the next decade (1562-1565). The latter colony represented a threat to Spanish interests,…
Huguenotismes de Jean de Léry : du bon usage des piques anticatholiques dans l’Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil
Summary One thing that strikes the reader about Jean de Léry’s Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil (1578) are the dozens of offhand remarks which Léry, a Calvinist pastor, makes against the Catholic faith. There is a…
Villegagnon, entre légende noire et légende dorée
Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon (1510-1572) was the leader of the expedition that sought to create the ephemeral ‘French Antarctic’ (around present-day Rio de Janeiro), which would fall in 1560, only five years after its establishment. In France Villegagnon became the…