The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South Africa, and Canada

Book Follows French Protestants Throughout the Globe

The 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes by France’s King Louis XIV, prompted a mass exodus of between 400,000 and 2 million French Protestants, i.e., Huguenots. Fearing for their lives, the Huguenots dispersed to the Dutch Republic, Prussia, Denmark, England, South Africa, and the French and English colonies of the New World.  The Huguenot diaspora[…]Read more

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