Le lion et le moucheron : histoire des Marranes de Toulouse
Traces the history of ca. 100 Portuguese and Spanish Conversos who settled in Toulouse in the 1660s, attracted to France by Colbert's liberal economic policies and the acceptance of strangers in Catholic France. Describes the growth of Catholic fanaticism during the 1670s-80s, as well as the revocation in 1685 of the Edict of Nantes and the explusion of Jews from the colonies the same year in accordance with the "Code noir, " which forbade the exercise of any religion other than Catholicism. The same wave of Catholic fervor, kindled by Jesuits, anti-capitalist aristocrats, and envious local merchants, struck the Conversos of Toulouse in 1685, when 18 of them were condemned in absentia by the public prosecutor to be burnt at the stake having been accused of desecrating the host. Forewarned, the Jews managed to escape to other parts of France or abroad, but their property was confiscated. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, French, 2000
O. Jacob, Paris, 2000