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Agrippa d'Aubigné
1552–1630
Agrippa d'Aubigné. French Reformed soldier, poet, and historian. Les Tragiques is the great Huguenot epic — a sweeping indictment of Catholic persecution set in apocalyptic verse. A witness to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the Wars of Religion.
From Les Tragiques
TO THE READERS Here is the thief Prometheus, who, instead of grace, asks gratitude for his crime, and thinks he can justly make you a gift of what is not his, as having stolen for you what his master was stealing from himself; and, what is more, this fire that I have stolen would have had no air; it was a torch under a bushel. My charitable sin has brought it to light: I say charitable to you and to its author. From the midst of the extremities of France and even from farther away, notably from an old pastor of Angrogna, several writings seconded the remonstrances made by living voice through which the servants of God reproached him for his hidden talent, and someone in these terms: "We are weary of books that teach; give us some to move us, in an age where all Christian zeal has perished,…
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