The French Convert

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This copy of <i>The French Convert</i> does not have a publisher, author or date, but many printings claim authorship by a French Protestant pastor named D’Auborn, with its earliest publishing date around 1700. The subtitle of the book, <i>Being a True Relation of the Happy Conversion of a Nobel French Lady from the Errors and Superstitions of Popery to the Reformed Religion by means of a Protestant Gardener, her Servant</i>, provides a brief synopsis of the plot. The book is part of the anti-Catholic sentiment in the mostly Protestant Britain and America during the 18th and 19th century that stemmed from England’s Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Protestant William of Orange overthrew the Catholic James II, and the subsequent battles that followed.