Jacques Fontaine
Life [?]-1728; author of Huguenot manuscript, Memoires dune famille huguenote; fame to Ireland in 1694; ministered in Cork; est. a fishing business in Berehaven; narrowly escaped dead from locals and Breton privateers; settled in Dublin and fnd. boarding school on St. Stephens Green, c.1709.
Works Max Chaleil, ed., Memoires dune famille huguenote, victime de la révolution de lÉdit de Nantes (Press de Languedoc 1995), 269pp.
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