Ambroise the Huguenot

Author: Esther Cleveland
Publisher: iUniverse.com
ISBN 978-0-595-42678-2
$12.95 (pbk)
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This is a creative nonfiction account of the author's French ancestor, Ambroise Sicard, born in Mornac, France in 1631.

Esther Cleveland imagined what the life of Ambroise and his family might have been like in the years during and after the horrific persecution of Protestants in France. They escape inland and southward by way of a zigzag route, avoiding the Dragoons (military police). In spite of it all, Ambroise pursues an education and falls in love.

This journey of adventure and romance ends up across the Atlantic in bustling New York City. Ambroise was the first Sicard to emigrate to America. There, he and his family were involved in creating New Rochelle, a Huguenot community.