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Antoine Qaurtier

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Antoine Quartier (1632–1702) was a French memoar writer.

He fell victim to the Barbary slave trade after having been abducted by the barbary corsairs and sold in Libya, where he lived as a slave between 1660 and 1668. After having returned to France, he wrote a memoir of his experience as a slave, which is a rare description of slavery in Libya, most barbary slave narratives depicting slavery in Alger and Morocco.[1]

Joined the Paris Congregation of the Order of Mercy in 1671. He was ordained priest after September 1676.

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  1. ^ Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa. (2022). USA: Columbia University Press.