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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 ...
The members of the Protestant religion in France, the Huguenots, had been granted substantial religious, political and military freedom by Henry IV in his Edict of Nantes. Later, following renewed warfare, they were stripped of their political and military privileges by Louis XIII, but retained their religious freedoms.
The flight of Huguenot refugees from Tours, France drew off most of the workers of its great silk mills which they had built. [citation needed] Some of these immigrants moved to Norwich, which had accommodated an earlier settlement of Walloon weavers. The French added to the existing immigrant population, then comprising about a third of the ...
Himself a refugee in Holland, Gastigny wanted to provide for the Huguenot refugees in England. He was a member of the French Committee responsible for distributing the Royal Bounty to the refugees. In his will dated April 1708, he originally left £1,000 (equivalent to £202,945 in 2023) to benefit poor French Protestants – £500 for an ...
Huguenot history (6 C, 4 P) M. Abraham de Moivre (9 P) Pages in category "Huguenots" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 286 total.
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Huguenot history in the United States (2 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Huguenot history" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
In 1715, he acquired an additional 190 acres on the south side of the James River; It was a tract on the first 5,000 acres established for French refugees. [7] Over the course of his life in Manakintown, he amassed sizeable property, including slaves and land. [1] He was the first of the French refugees in Henrico County to own enslaved people. [3]