David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Alexandre Descairac, born in 1637, was educated at Montauban, and became the Reformed Pasteur of Le Fleix in 1665, but was translated in the following year to Sauvetat. He married Mademoiselle La Brue, daughter of a distinguished military engineer, and sister of Madame Rigaud. His last church in France was Bergerac, in the province of Guienne, where he settled in 1677, and from whence he removed by command of the Revocation Edict in October 1685. Being in Bordeaux as a traveller, he brought himself under the lash of the law by conducting family worship for his host. ”

“ A female servant, who had been permitted to attend, betrayed him (as he was told) to the jurats of the city; he was seized and sent to prison. They visited him there four or five times every day, and pressed him to abjure his faith, as the evidence was so strong, and the king’s orders so precise, that they could not otherwise avoid condemning him to the galleys. He resisted ”