Antoine Qaurtier
{{Short description|French memoir writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
Antoine Quartier (1632–1702) was a French memoir 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.Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa. (2022). USA: Columbia University Press.
Joined the Paris Congregation of the Order of Mercy in 1671. He was ordained priest after September 1676.
References
{{reflist}}
{{Slave narrative}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quartier, Antoine}}
Category:17th-century French memoirists
Category:Writers of slave narratives