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  2. Henrietta Battier - Wikipedia

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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)

  3. Anne de Rohan (poétesse) - Wikipedia

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    Anne expressed her deep feelings of loss following the death of her mother on 26 October 1631 in the poem Plaintes de mademoiselle Anne de Rohan: A la mort de sa mère (Complaints of Miss Anne de Rohan: On the death of her mother). It was published with other poems that she wrote in the Bulletin of the Society for the History of French ...

  4. John de Beauchesne - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Théophile de Viau - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Andrew Le Mercier - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Le Mercier (1692–1764) was a French-born Protestant Huguenot leader in Boston in the 18th century and author.. Le Mercier was born in Normandy, France in 1692, [1] completing clerical studies in Geneva at the then Geneva Academy in 1715 and arrived in Boston (then in the English colony of Province of Massachusetts Bay) in 1716 recruited by André Faneuil as pastor of the Boston French ...

  7. Edict of Nantes - Wikipedia

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    in The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina (Springer, Dordrecht, 1988) pp. 28–48. [ISBN missing] Sutherland, Nicola Mary. "The Huguenots and the Edict of Nantes 1598–1629." in Huguenots in Britain and their French Background, 1550–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1987) pp. 158–174.

  8. Jacob Bailey (author) - Wikipedia

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    Bailey's congregation was a mix of mainly German Lutheran and French Huguenot immigrants, who were often at odds on matters of religion with the area's Yankee Congregationalists. Despite continuing friction with the local Congregationalists, Bailey was able to build a church and parsonage in 1770-71.

  9. William Larminie - Wikipedia

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    William Larminie (1 August 1849 – 19 January 1900) was an Irish poet and folklorist.. He was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, of Huguenot descent and was educated at Kingstown School and Trinity College Dublin, from which he graduated in 1871 with a moderatorship in Classics.