I am a DPhil student in French, researching representational strategies in the memoirs of Huguenot refugees, following the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. I look at accounts written by women who were imprisoned for their faith, and by men who were forced to work as galley slaves, as well as writings which focus on cultural and linguistic assimilation following resettlement abroad. I am particularly interested in intertextual aspects of the memoirs I study, and in the influence of the cultural memory of sixteenth-century martyrdoms on these later texts. I am also interested in general in the social norms of linguistic and religious minorities.