1680 Abjuration Of Jean Buchet Native Of Garlin In Béarn Lescar Pau Vic-bilh Protestantism

Very rare Certificate of Abjuration on vellum dated July 30, 1680. (five years before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes) It concerns Mr. Jean Buchet, native of Garlin (old Béarnaise bastide 30 km from Pau in the country of Vic-Bilh). The Buchet family had important roles in Béarn and in the Landes (Jean's son, who was called Pierre Buchet, was a Barber-Surgeon in Garlin and then a Major Surgeon in the regiment of the Béarnaise Bands. A large part of his descendants were surgeons and one of them was Mayor of Tartas under the Empire). Text of the Document: "Today, the thirtieth of July, One Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty Seven, feast of St. Ignatius, we Bernard (...) priest of the Society of Jesus, the undersigned, have, by virtue of the power that Monsignor the Archbishop of Paris had given us (...) to abjure the Reformed Christian religion and profession of the Apostolic and Roman Catholic religion. Jean Buchet, native of Garlin, diocese of Lescar in Béarn, in the interior Chapel of our House of St. Louis, Rue St. Antoine in Paris, in witness whereof we have given him this certificate." On the back, a handwritten note from the same period "Buchet, brave boy (...)" This rare document bears the dry stamp of the Society of Jesus and the signature of the priest who wrote it. It measures: 19.5cm high x 14.5cm wide.