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In 1768 she married William Battier (d. c. 1794), [2] the estranged son of a Dublin banker of French Huguenot descent. [3] They had at least four children and she began writing in order to subsidize the family's income. [4] [5] Title page of The Kirwanade by Henrietta Battier (Dublin, 1791)
Claude Brousson (1647–1698) was a French Huguenot lawyer and preacher. His work for the Huguenots is explained in the book by Dr. Samuel Smiles. [1] He returned to France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and was broken on the wheel in 1698.
After the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Pierre Joubert (Jaubert) went into exile at the age of 24, leaving La Motte-d'Aigues to reach Rotterdam in the Netherlands. On this occasion, he brought out from France a bible in a loaf of bread, visible in the French Huguenot Memorial Museum in Franschoek, South Africa.
Due to the Huguenots' early ties with the leadership of the Dutch Revolt and their own participation, some of the Dutch patriciate are of part-Huguenot descent. Some Huguenot families have kept alive various traditions, such as the celebration and feast of their patron Saint Nicolas , similar to the Dutch Sint Nicolaas ( Sinterklaas ) feast.
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Two of his poems are melancholy pleas to the king on the subject of his incarceration or exile, and this tone of sadness is also present in his ode On Solitide which mixes classical motifs with an elegy about the poet in the midst of a forest. Théophile de Viau was "rediscovered" by the French Romantics in the 19th century.
Jean Marteilhe (1684–1777) was a French huguenot writer. [1] Condemned to the galleys for his belief in 1701 and freed in 1713, he is one of the few former gally slaves to have written a slave narrative.
John de Beauchense was born in Paris around 1538, and was probably raised a Huguenot.He is likely related to a group of printers and booksellers active in Paris in the 16th century named Beauchesne: Abraham Beauchesne (active around 1532), Julien Beauchesne (1545) and Jeanne Beauchesne, wife of the Parisian printer Jean Plumyon, killed In 1572 during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.