Excerpt from The Huguenots of La Rochelle: A Translation of "the Reformed Church of La Rochelle, an Historical Sketch In publishing this work, it is not necessary for me to caution the reader that I intend to offer no civil or political history of the city the name of which is found on the title-page, while, at the same time, I shall not entirely exclude topics of that nature. The political borders so closely, in fact, upon the religious in the annals of our country, - the one, I mean, has been so fre quently either mingled or confounded with the other, in the annals of our city, -that it is impossible to completely separate the two. But we must limit our treatise to the religious portion of La Rochelle's history, and confine ourselves to that phase of it which is at once the most lofty and the most calm. If we are led to allude to the perishable interests of earth, we must not forget that they are subordinate to the eternal interests of the soul, and that it is with a view to the latter that we take up the pen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.