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Article: Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity Among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 1996
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Blood and Belief is a study of the Lacger family, Protestant nobles of Castres in southern France, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Raymond Mentzer discovered a rich family archive that allowed him to follow their careers and fortunes - an "ordinary and unexceptional, hence representative and informative past" (26). The Lacgers were aspiring royal officeholders. By the 1550s Antoine de Lacger was a judge in the Parlement of Toulouse. But the Wars of Religion cut short their ascent; the Protestant Antoine was murdered in 1572. Subsequent generations had limited opportunities for judicial service in the biconfessional Chambre de l'Edit until that court was ...
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