Author: CLARKE DE DROMANTIN, PATRICK
Title: Les Oies Sauvages. Mémoires d'une famille irlandaise réfugiée en France (Nantes, Martinique, Bordeaux : 1691-1914). De l'assimilation des étrangers dans la France de jadis: contribution à l'étude du mouvement jacobite.
Description: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1995. 569 pages, some illustrations. Chased from their homeland when the Dutch Stadtholder William III defeated the Catholic forces in Ireland, many refugees, dubbed Wild Geese, ended up in Catholic France, not all in military occupations, some in sound business. The author finds his ancestral roots among them. paperback (code N-39)

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