ABSTRACT
Since the Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly entered the collection of France’s national library, it has drawn great interest from historians. All of them repeat biographical details from the text and from the writings of a French doctor that identify a ship surgeon who spent 1668–1675 as the personal physician to the Tripolitan dey. On the basis of new archival research, this paper will offer evidence that the author Pierre Girard was, in fact, a Huguenot. Accordingly, Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly stands as one of the only North African captivity narratives by a French Protestant.
