Article Nº 1385 Foreign visitor or author on Madeira Vol. II · p. 14
Falgairolle (Edmond)
Edmond Falgairolle published in Paris in 1895 a partial pamphlet on the French corsair attack on Madeira in 1566.
In 1895 he published in Paris a pamphlet of 31 pages entitled Une expedition française à l'ile de Madère en 1566. With evident partiality, it deals with the terrible attack that French corsairs made on this island in October 1566, which Gaspar Frutuoso treats at length in chapters XL, XLI and XLII of ‘Longing for the Homeland’ (Saudades da Terra).
People mentioned
- Edmond Falgairolle
- Gaspar Frutuoso 1522–1591
Places mentioned
Chronology
- French Huguenot corsairs under Montluc, guided by Gaspar Caldeira, landed at Praia Formosa and sacked Funchal, storming the fortress of São Lourenço, profaning the cathedral and the Santa Clara convent, whose nuns fled to the Curral; Gaspar de Braga died resisting them. The attack, during the captaincy of Francisco Gonçalves da Câmara, prompted new coastal fortifications.
- Edmond Falgairolle published Une expédition française à l'île de Madère en 1566 in Paris.