By 1561 there were 2000 Calvinist churches in France and the Huguenots had become a political faction that seemed to threaten the state. |
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Indeed, the Huguenots symbolised the Protestant work ethic and, with their business acumen, became the midwives of British capitalism. |
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Since I haven't kept up with every antinomian argument since the time of the Huguenots, I only understand about half of his rants. |
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During Richelieu's campaign against the Huguenots, France had to borrow boats to transport their troops and supplies. |
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William planned a three-pronged attack on Alva using Louis of Nassau and the French Huguenots. |
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The largest group were Huguenots, many of them silk weavers, silversmiths, and furniture makers. |
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The Huguenots were French Protestants who had been persecuted for their faith. |
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White immigrants, mainly Dutch and French Huguenots, move inland and fight fierce battles with the already settled Xhosa and Zulu tribes. |
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Bob Edmonds brings life and relevancy to the struggles of the French Huguenots who migrated to America to found the New Bordeaux colony. |
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Many Huguenots were expert throwsters and weavers and they made a major contribution to the development of the silk industry in Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland. |
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During the 16th and 17th centuries, Dutch, Boers, Germans, and Huguenots migrated to South Africa, and these people brought with them their own European hunting dogs. |
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Mennonites and Huguenots found similar niches. With religious diversity came the cultural sort. |
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That fact has not escaped the attention of the ever-enterprising Opera Orchestra of New York, which recently gave a concert performance of Les Huguenots at Carnegie Hall. |
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Driven out by the French, the Huguenots carried with them the process they had developed for turning beaver plews into the felt used for the beaver hats. |
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The Warrington Silver was exclusively commissioned from the French Protestant refugees known as the Huguenots, who were the best goldsmiths of the period. |
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The Swiss watchmaking tradition only truly began with the arrival of the Huguenots in the latter half of the 16th century. |
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The city lived a distinct phase of its history from 1567 to 1622, when it fell under the influence of the Huguenots, the French Protestants. |
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In 1688, Huguenots escaped France to settle in South Africa and developed the cultivation of vines. |
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It is estimated today that 250,000 Huguenots and Waldensians flew to neighbore protestant countries. |
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During the 1750s French Huguenots suffered the last great wave of state-sponsored persecution, and Jansenists within the Gallican Church fared little better. |
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Protestantism also spread from the German lands into France, where the Protestants were nicknamed Huguenots. |
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In the late 17th century many Huguenots fled to England, the Netherlands, Prussia, Switzerland, and the English and Dutch overseas colonies. |
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The persecuted Anabaptists and Huguenots demanded freedom of conscience, and they practised separation of church and state. |
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The Wars of Religion were ended by Henry IV's Edict of Nantes, which granted some freedom of religion to the Huguenots. |
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Louis XIV also revoked the Edict of Nantes, forcing thousands of Huguenots into exile. |
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Huguenots came after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, while the Flemish Protestants came during the Eighty Years' War. |
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Prior to its establishment, Huguenots used the Cabbage Garden near the Cathedral. |
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The Huguenots were unable to win a substantive victory, but were able to keep an army in the field. |
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The Huguenots held the southwest and were allied to England and the princes of Germany. |
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In 1569, Raleigh left for France to serve with the Huguenots in the French religious civil wars. |
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On 31 December 1687 a community of French Huguenots settled in South Africa. |
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Charles, meanwhile, decided to send an expeditionary force to relieve the French Huguenots whom French royal troops held besieged in La Rochelle. |
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On 12 May 1705, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act to naturalise the 148 Huguenots still resident at Manakintown. |
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The persecution and flight of the Huguenots greatly damaged the reputation of Louis XIV abroad, particularly in England. |
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The story ends with Holmes and Watson leaving to see the opera Les Huguenots starring Jean de Reszke. |
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They did not populate North America as much as the English did, as they did not allow the Huguenots to travel to the New World. |
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It evokes my Huguenots ascendants and my love for liturgy and poems. |
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The Huguenots transformed themselves into a definitive political movement thereafter. |
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Our church still today bears the marks of churchly and political changes and influences in past centuries, of Reformation and CounterReformation, from reformed Netherlands preachers via Swiss scholars to the Huguenots. |
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Nesles having been used as refuge in Huguenots, one supposes that it is at that time that its dismantling was ordered: roofs, crownings, crenellations disappeared, as well as the higher stages. |
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He served in the numerous wars in northern Italy and southern France against Charles V, Holy Roman emperor and king of Spain, and in the campaigns of Charles IX against the Huguenots. |
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Eventually the Huguenots were defeated, and the Peace of Alès was signed on June 28, 1629 whereby the Huguenots were allowed to retain their freedom of conscience but lost all their military advantages. |
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The experience of some immigrants today is reminiscent of the hostility that the Huguenots once faced in England, as did the Germans, the Italians and the Irish in the United States, and the Chinese in Australia. |
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A little later, all the Huguenots of the Lot valley took refuge with it. |
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French Huguenots had their own Waalse Kerk, now a shop. |
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This Gothic-style construction took two centuries to complete and it was very nearly destroyed during the Wars of Religion when, in 1568, the Huguenots blew up the crossing pillars resulting in the collapse of the transept. |
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Persecution diminished the number of Huguenots who remained in France, as many fled to Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, and England. |
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The Huguenots became organised as a definitive political movement thereafter. |
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Henry of Navarre and the House of Bourbon allied with the Huguenots, adding wealth and holdings to the Protestant strength. |
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The city's political institutions and the university were all handed over to the Huguenots. |
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By 1620 the Huguenots were on the defensive, and the government increasingly applied pressure. |
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Louis XIV gained the throne in 1643 and acted increasingly aggressively to force the Huguenots to convert. |
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The first Huguenots to leave France sought freedom from persecution in Switzerland and the Netherlands. |
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The fort was destroyed in 1560 by the Portuguese, who captured part of the Huguenots. |
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The Huguenots of Guanabara, as they are now known, produced a declaration of faith to express their beliefs to the Portuguese. |
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Menendez proceeded to massacre the defenceless Huguenots, after which he wiped out the Fort Caroline garrison. |
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The Huguenots adapted quickly and often married outside their immediate French communities, which led to their assimilation. |
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A number of French Huguenots settled in Wales, in the upper Rhymney valley of the current Caerphilly County Borough. |
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Some Huguenots settled in Bedfordshire, one of the main centres of the British lace industry at the time. |
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The Huguenots added synods whose members were also elected by the congregations. |
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A number of Huguenots served as mayors in Dublin, Cork, Youghal and Waterford in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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The Berlin Huguenots preserved the French language in their church services for nearly a century. |
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The exodus of Huguenots from France created a brain drain, as many Huguenots had occupied important places in society. |
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Huguenots appeared in all of the English colonies and likewise assimilated. |
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In April 1688, the VOC agreed to sponsor the resettlement of over 100 Huguenots at the Cape. |
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In 1562, a group of Huguenots led by Jean Ribault arrived in Spanish Florida to establish a colony in the territory claimed by Spain. |
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The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political, and military autonomy. |
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By the time Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, Huguenots accounted for 800,000 to 1 million people. |
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Sometime between 1550 and 1580, members of the Reformed church in France came to be commonly known as Huguenots. |
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Although usually Huguenots are lumped into one group, there were actually two types of Huguenots that emerged. |
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After the 1534 Affair of the Placards he distanced himself from Huguenots and their protection. |
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The Dutch East India Company needed skilled farmers at the Cape of Good Hope and the Dutch Government saw opportunities to settle Huguenots at the Cape and sent them there. |
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The terms under which the Huguenots agreed to immigrate were the same offered to other VOC subjects, including free passage and requisite farm equipment on credit. |
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Upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, they were joined by French Huguenots fleeing religious persecution at home, who interspersed among the original freemen. |
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Randall begins From a Far Country by situating her analysis of Camisards and Huguenots within the historiography of early modern French and American Protestantism. |
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Huguenots were not entirely innocent of massacres themselves. |
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In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots migrated from England to the colony of Virginia, where the English Crown had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County. |
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It proved disastrous to the Huguenots and costly for France. |
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After the French king Louis XIV declared Protestantism illegal in 1685 in the Edict of Fontainebleau, an estimated 50,000 Protestant Huguenots fled to England. |
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Unlike elsewhere in Europe, France experienced relatively low levels of emigration to the Americas, with the exception of the Huguenots in British or Dutch colonies. |
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Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, invited Huguenots to settle in his realms, and a number of their descendants rose to positions of prominence in Prussia. |
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On 31 December 1687 the first organised group of Huguenots set sail from the Netherlands to the Dutch East India Company post at the Cape of Good Hope. |
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Most of the cities in which the Huguenots gained a hold saw iconoclast riots in which altars and images in churches, and sometimes the buildings themselves were torn down. |
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French Huguenots made two attempts to establish a haven in North America. |
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A small group of Huguenots also settled on the south shore of Staten Island along the New York Harbor, for which the current neighbourhood of Huguenot was named. |
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New Rochelle, located in the county of Westchester on the north shore of Long Island Sound, seemed to be the great location of the Huguenots in New York. |
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The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France in 1685 resulted in the immigration of many French Huguenots, many of whom were shopkeepers or scientists. |
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Two hundred Scottish soldiers were sent to Normandy in 1562 to aid the French Huguenots in their struggle against royal authority during the French Wars of Religion. |
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