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Louis XIV claimed that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 900,000 or 800,000 adherents to just 1,000 or 1,500. He exaggerated the decline, but the dragonnades were devastating for the French Protestant community. The exodus of Huguenots from France created a brain drain, as many of them had occupied important places in society.
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 ...
In 1572 these congregations united and in 1573 the community was visited by the Queen. Around this time, the Huguenot population of Sandwich grew to comprise almost a third of the town's overall population. [10] [11] A small number of Huguenot gardeners moved to Wandsworth, Battersea, and Bermondsey to be closer to London. [12]
Surnames of Huguenot Families on the Huguenot Memorial in the Johannesburg Botanical Garden. There are many families, today mostly Afrikaans-speaking, whose surnames bear witness to their Huguenot ancestry. A comprehensive list of these surnames can be seen on the Huguenot Memorial in the Johannesburg Botanical Garden.
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598.Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1]
Areas controlled and contested by Huguenots are marked purple and blue on this map of modern France. The Huguenot rebellions, sometimes called the Rohan Wars after the Huguenot leader Henri de Rohan, were a series of rebellions of the 1620s in which French Calvinist Protestants (Huguenots), mainly located in southwestern France, revolted against royal authority.
By 1900 New Rochelle had a population of 14,720. [24] As the effects of continuing immigration continued throughout the northeastern United States and New York in particular, the early French Huguenot character of the town and its ruling class dissolved. In 1930 New Rochelle recorded a population of 54,000, up from 36,213 only ten years earlier.
In 1702, this Huguenot population, dubbed the Camisards, rose up against the monarchy to protect their religious freedom. [34] The two sides agreed to peace in 1715, which enabled the local Protestant Huguenot population to continue living in the Cévennes. Their descendants have continued to live there to the present day.