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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 Huguenot cemetery, or the "Huguenot Burial Ground", has since been recognised as a historic cemetery that is the final resting place for a wide range of the Huguenot founders, early settlers and prominent citizens dating back more than three centuries.
Samuel Courtauld was the eldest son of George Courtauld, founder of George Courtauld and Co. The Courtauld family were descendants of Huguenot refugees who had settled in London and developed, over several generations, a highly regarded business as metalsmiths, working in both silver and gold.
Abraham Salle, Justice of the Peace of Chesterfield County, and his cousin Jacob Salle, a yeoman, were descendants of immigrants Abraham and Olive Salle. [10] Abraham Salle was a Sheriff in Chesterfield County from 1768 to 1769. [11] Salle's descendants have moved west to Kentucky and other states. The surnames are spelled Sallee, Salle, and ...
French/Huguenot tenements in Szczecin, built by descendants of French immigrants to the city. Historically, there were three major surges of French migration to Poland, caused by various political factors. The first, consisting of persecuted Huguenots, occurred following the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572. [100]
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was the son of a Parisian watchmaker and a member of a Burgundian Huguenot family. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of a minor noble family. In 1800, he and his sons, Victor Marie du Pont and Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, migrated from France to the United States.
Kylie Cantrall is seeing Red this summer. Disney tapped the 19-year-old actress and “Unsure” singer to take its wickedly successful TV movie franchise in a new direction.
Henry Martyn Baird's research and writing regarding the Huguenots appeared in three parts, entitled respectively History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France (2 vols, 1879), The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre (2 vols, 1886), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (2 vols, 1895), and was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as being "characterized by painstaking ...