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In the heart of the city, opening on to a garden full of charm, the Musée rochelais d'histoire protestante, is devoted uniquely to the history of Protestantism in La Rochelle, in Aunis and in Saintonge. It is a must for anyone who really wishes to be acquainted with the soul of a city, the stones of which preserve intact the imprint of a tumultuous past. Particular importance is given to the XVIth century, a period when La Rochelle is the true capital of the Huguenot party.
Among the remarkable exhibits: ceramics of the workshop of Bernard Palissy, a badge of the sea-Beggars of Holland, allies of the Huguenot corsairs in transatlantic privateering, a single copy, printed in La Rochelle in 1572, of the Confession of faith of the reformed churches of the kingdom of France, rare books, manuscripts, a pulpit from the period in the Wilderness, a tapestry, The ten commandments of God's Law, of 1779. Handwritten letters, documents and engravings are remindersof the countries of the Refuge.
Among the remarkable exhibits: ceramics of the workshop of Bernard Palissy, a badge of the sea-Beggars of Holland, allies of the Huguenot corsairs in transatlantic privateering, a single copy, printed in La Rochelle in 1572, of the Confession of faith of the reformed churches of the kingdom of France, rare books, manuscripts, a pulpit from the period in the Wilderness, a tapestry, The ten commandments of God's Law, of 1779. Handwritten letters, documents and engravings are remindersof the countries of the Refuge.
