Claude Brousson (1647–1698) was a French Huguenot lawyer and preacher. His work for the Huguenots is explained in the book by Dr. Samuel Smiles.[1]

He returned to France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and was broken on the wheel in 1698.

References

  • Six Heroic Men: John Frith; T. Fowell Buxton; David Livingstone; Richard Baxter; John Lawrence; Claude Brousson. by [[William Garden Blaikie]]
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20060113122213/http://www.puc.edu/PUC/newsevents/news/2003/20030325_utt.shtml
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Brousson, Claude". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 757–758. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.
  • Relation Sommaire des Merveilles que Dieu fait en France, Claude Brousson, 1694 (Éditions Ionas, 2016).

Further reading

  • Utt, Walter C., and Brian E. Strayer. The Bellicose Dove; Claude Brousson and Protestant Resistance to Louis XIV, 1647–1698. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2013.

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