Merchants of Virtue

af Paul C. R. Monk

France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Huguenot "heretics" to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten to take her children. One by one, Jeanne watches her neighbors cave under the constant harassment. She and her husband resolve to hold fast to their Protestant principals of liberty of conscience, but Jeanne wonders if the punishment for th... (Læs mere)