Imagine a port city so dreaded by its neighbours that we prefer to sabotage twenty ships rather than let it breathe. Yet this is what was played on the Charente coast at the end of the sixteenth century, when the inhabitants of La Rochelle decided to end, once and for all, with the Catholic competition of [...]
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Imagine a port city so dreaded by its neighbours that we prefer to sabotage twenty ships rather than let it breathe. Yet this is what was played on the Charente coast at the end of the sixteenth century, when the inhabitants of La Rochelle decided to end, once and for all, with the Catholic competition of [...]