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  2. Huguenots - Wikipedia

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    The first Huguenots to leave France sought freedom from persecution in Switzerland and the Netherlands. [82] A group of Huguenots was part of the French colonisers who arrived in Brazil in 1555 to found France Antarctique. A couple of ships with around 500 people arrived at the Guanabara Bay, present-day Rio de Janeiro, and settled on a small ...

  3. Edict of Fontainebleau (1540) - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Edict of Fontainebleau codified the persecution of the French Protestants, also called Huguenots, and was the first of many edicts in France to persecute them. The next major edict was the Edict of Châteaubriant , which was issued by Francis I's son, heir and the next king, Henry II .

  4. Edict of Fontainebleau - Wikipedia

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    The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895) online. Dubois, E. T. "The revocation of the edict of Nantes — Three hundred years later 1685–1985." History of European Ideas 8#3 (1987): 361–365. reviews 9 new books. online; Scoville, Warren Candler. The persecution of Huguenots and French economic development, 1680-1720 ...

  5. List of Huguenots - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. French Wars of Religion - Wikipedia

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    History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France. Vol. 1. ——— (1889). History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France. Vol. 2. [permanent dead link ‍] New edition, two volumes, New York, 1907. Baird, H. M. (1895). The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. C. Scribner's sons. Baumgartner, Frederic (1988).

  7. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...

  8. François de la Noue - Wikipedia

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    Permitted to return to France, he was commissioned by Charles IX, after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, to reconcile the inhabitants of La Rochelle, the great stronghold of the Huguenots, to the king (see Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573)). But the Rochellois were too much alarmed to come to terms; and La Noue, perceiving that war was ...

  9. Jessé de Forest - Wikipedia

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    That monument was given to the City of New York by the Belgian Province of Hainaut in honor of the inspiration of Jessé de Forest in founding New York City. Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, representing the government and Albert I , King of Belgium , presented the monument to Mayor John F. Hylan for the City of New York on May 18, 1924.