...family of de La Serre, who lived in the south of France on their own estate, were Huguenots and fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, leaving all behind them, and settled in Guernsey (the home of many such fugitives), where they...

...family of de La Serre, who lived in the south of France on their own estate, were Huguenots and fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, leaving all behind them, and settled in Guernsey (the home of many such fugitives), where they...

...daughter of that same worshipful mayor, married David Martineau, grandson of Gaston Martineau, who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.1 Harriet and James Martineau were grandchildren of this David. The second son of Richard and...

...Bartholomew DuPuy, who was a distinguished French soldier, a Huguenot in religion who made his escape from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes under very thrilling circumstances, and a little later settled in Virginia, where he was the...

...is the seventh in direct paternal line from Jacques Pinneau, one of two Huguenot brothers, refugees from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685. With vast numbers of the skilled artisans and industrial workers from France who fled...

...1874. BARRAUD, WILLIAM, an animal painter, wa» >om in 1810. The family of this artist came over o England from France at the time of the Revocation...father held an appointment in the Custom-house, and his grand father was a well-known chronometer-maker in Cornhill. His taste for painting was most probabl_,...

...strong French characteristics were due largely to the work of Marot, a prominent decorator who fled from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685. Many other French artisans worked in England at this time, just prior to the Queen Anne...

...noted botanist and physician and surgeon, Dr. Isaac Porcher, who was among the French refugees who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled in South Carolina. His mother was descended from Thomas Walter, an English botanist,...

...' I assume from its name that this Society is primarily interested in the French refugees who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes — from 1685 to the end of .the century. ' I have referred to our church registers to see if...

...Count Pourtales, the legal scholar (a relative of the prominent Neuchatel family that had immigrated from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes), and in this milieu he had met some of the leading lights of Paris at the time: Cousin, de...