 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1819 - 510 pages
...the population and wealth of the place : the latter are the descendants of those refugees who fled from France at the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, when emigrations took place to so many other countries, some remains of which may still be... | |
 | John Thomas James - Europe - 1819 - 508 pages
...to the population and wealth of the place: the latter are the descendants of those refugees who fled from France at the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, when emigrations took place to so many other countries, some remains of which may still be... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 838 pages
...was preacher in the French church. It may be well to state that, of the 800,000 protestanu who fled from France at the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Home took refuge in the electorate of Brandenburg, where they enjoyed extensive civil privileges.... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...the daughter of a gentleman of noble birth in Poitou — one of the many French exiles who had fled from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Eleanore was aware that his rank was too far above her own for there to be a question of marriage... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 664 pages
...stated that the Pennys of Knutsford were descended from a Protestant minister said to have come over from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and that the name was originally Pennée. But the fact that their undoubted ancestor, the Rev.... | |
 | Bible - 1849 - 848 pages
...was preacher in the French church. It may be well to state that, of the 800,000 protestants who fled from France at the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, some took refuge in the electorate of Brandenburg, where they enjoyed extensive civil privileges.... | |
 | Henry Ottley, Michael Bryan - Artists - 1866 - 200 pages
...numerous designs for Sevres porcelain, and decorated the dining-room at St. Cloud. BAEEAUD, WILLIAM. The family of this artist came over to England from France at the time of the Eevocation of the Edict of Nantes ; his father held a highly responsible situation in the custom-house,... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1882 - 198 pages
...Tappan, a descendant of the Tappins of Lorraine ; a family of Huguenots that had taken refuge in Holland at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His mother was of the ancient family of the DeWitts of Holland. At the time of his birth the echoes of... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1883 - 456 pages
...ancient family in Languedoc, near Nismes, who was Governor and first Grand Provost of Paris in 1265. At the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, his descendant and the representative of his Estate was Jaques Boileau, Lord of Castelnau and St. Croix,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1885 - 498 pages
...the eminent chronometer maker in Cornbill, who was of nn old French family that came over to England at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His taste for art was probably inherited from his maternal grandfather, an excellent miniature painter,... | |
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Huguenot family which had fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Guernsey. 
