Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Birth, parentage, and early education; 2. Palissy obtains some knowledge of the world; 3. More knowledge of the world; 4. Palissy studies the philosophers; 5. Commotions in the church; 6. The French reformer; 7. Palissy married and settled; 8. Pottery three centuries ago; 9. Palissy resolves to conquer for himself new ground; 10. A truce; 11. Second Palissian war for the discovery of white enamel; 12. A heretic is burnt at Saintes; 13. Palissy becomes a potter; 14. The reformed church at Saintes; 15. Affairs of France; 16. Palissy publishes a book; 17. Palissy in sunshine, and France under a cloud; 18. The outbreak of the storm.

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This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy was published in 1852.