l'agenais

Updated: May 25, 2025

All this is told with marvellous effect in the first part of the Souvenirs, which ends with a wail and a sob. It is stated in the Bibliographie Generale de l'Agenais, that Palissy was born in the district of Agen, perhaps at La Chapelle Biron, and that, being a Huguenot, he was imprisoned in the Bastille at Paris, and died there in 1590, shortly after the massacre of St. Bartholomew.

Samuel Smiles - Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist