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The water pond, reflecting the colonnade behind it, expresses the undisturbed tranquility of mind and spiritual peace which the Huguenots refugees gained in South Africa after having experienced deadly religious persecution in France. The Huguenot Memorial Museum adjacent to the monument explores the history of the French Huguenots who settled ...
The museum displays cover two major topics. In the main building, the history of the French Huguenots is discussed in detail. Topics include: Why they came, who brought them, where they settled and a list of surnames of Huguenot origin. Displays in the annex convey the history of the town of Franschhoek, and have a broader scope. Topics in this ...
In 1564 Laudonniere received 50,000 crowns from Charles IX and returned to Florida with three ships and 300 Huguenot colonists. Athore, son of the Timucuan king Saturiwa, showing Laudonnière the monument placed by Ribault in 1562. Laudonnière arrived at the mouth of the May River (today called the St. Johns River) on 22 June 1564.
Key work: Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. [336] François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, statesman. Key work: History of France. [337] Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer. [338] Francis Labilliere (1840–1895), Australian historian and imperialist, son of Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere. He was ...
[11] The name, Huguenot, "the people applied in hatred and derision to those who were elsewhere called Lutherans, and from Touraine it spread throughout France." [ 12 ] The prétendus réformés ('supposedly reformed') were said to gather at night at Tours , both for political purposes, and for prayer and singing psalms . [ 13 ]
It mostly occurred in southern France, especially in the dioceses of Nîmes and Uzès, and in Dauphiné. [5] Protestant preachers and/or leaders active during this period in France included Antoine Court, [6] [7] Paul Rabaut, [8] Alexander Ramsey, and Roger. [9] They often lived as nomads in wilderness areas in order to avoid capture.
Until well into the 20th century, knowledge of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues was extremely limited, and largely confined to the footnotes of inaccessible ethnographic bibliographies, where he figures as the writer and illustrator of a short history of Laudonniere's attempt in 1564–5 to establish a Huguenot settlement in Florida.
Pages in category "Huguenot history in France" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.