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On the basis of a corpus of ten memoirs written by Protestants who left for the Refuge countries following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, we examine the situation of internal conflicts in which their authors found themselves. First of all, conflicts between faith and morality, often affecting their own families, traces of which are seen in the practice of dissimulation and lying. But the Catholic constraint also had the effect of introducing a segmentation within a faith that could no longer be fully lived out, even going as far as temporary abjuration and compromises which these authors struggle to denounce. The mark of these internal segmentations can be detected in the texts, where the process of the reconfiguration of memory reveals fault lines which are both those of writing and those of the Subject: the difference between historical time and narrative time, the disruption of chronology, and enunciative variations via additions.