Where were Protestants sent?

The galleys were used as detention facilities rather than warships. They were abandonned in 1748 and replaced by convict prisons in navy ports, or arsenals. Louis XIV had forty galleys, thirty-four of which were based in Marseilles. A regular galley required 260 rowers, that the courts were required to provide. However, Protestants were not sentenced to provide labour but in order to set an example and promote fear.

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no one really purchased it themselves, it was all america, they had debates etc.