Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Bousquet

by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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Bousquet.

There died in London, 5th May 1758, Mr. Andrew Bousquet, aged eighty-six, a French Protestant of Languedoc, who, for his religion, suffered fourteen years’ slavery in the king’s galleys. He was the first promoter of the Westminster French Charity School, begun in 1747, for poor children born in England of French refugee parents, to which he left £500.