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Highlights
- Huguenot Garden is a children's story of the daily and adventurous episodes in the lives of Rene and Albret Martineau, young twin sisters in a seventeeth-century, French Protestant family.
- 8-12 Years
- 7.8" x 5.0" Paperback
- 120 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Historical
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About the Book
Huguenot Garden is a children's story of the daily and adventurous episodes in the lives of Rene and Albret Martineau, young twin sisters in a seventeeth-century, French Protestant family.
Book Synopsis
Huguenot Garden is a children's story of the daily and adventurous episodes in the lives of Rene and Albret Martineau, young twin sisters in a seventeeth-century, French Protestant family.
The episodes follow the twins and the rest of the Martineau family as they work, worship, commune, and suffer persecution together.
The story aims to portray the ideas and historical details common to Huguenot life in La Rochelle, France, 1685, a tragic year whose final quarter brought the full wrath of Louis XIV.
Review Quotes
1. Friends and Enemies
2. High Calling
3. The Misunderstanding
4. Rahab's Sisters
5. Stars and Sand
6. Church Rest
7. Refuge from the Storm
8. The Pretended Freethinker
9. Fruitful Lessons
10. Dust of Wrath
11. Anchor of Faith
12. New Sand
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