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The Faith and Fortunes of France's Huguenots, 1600-85.(Book Review)
Canadian Journal of History
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April 1, 2005|
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The Faith and Fortunes of France's Huguenots, 1600-85, by Philip Benedict. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, United Kingdom, Ashgate, 2001. xiv, 336 pp. $109.95 US (cloth).
Society and Cutlure in the Huguenot Worm 1559-1685, edited by Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 241 pp. $75.00 US (cloth).
In these two collections of essays, historians chart the fate of a minority group in the years between the consolidation of the Huguenot community in the 1560s up to its suppression through ...
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Proud Stroud a pleasant memory
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Observer
; ...with their interesting tongue making the area more multi-cultural since the area was made home by a sizable Huguenot community in the 17th century, fleeing persecution in Catholic France, followed by a significant Jewish presence in the...
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French Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...to seek education on the Continent, principally in France, and the existence in Ireland of a tightly-knit Huguenot community that seems to have continued reading in French much longer than English Huguenots did. In addition, Dublin was...
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Collapse of the Huguenot cause.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...center on France's Atlantic coast. The city's Protestant officials exerted political influence within the Huguenot community, while the city often hosted religious conferences and political assemblies of Protestant leaders. Catholic...
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Welcome refugees.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...mongrel nation, the list of contributors to British nationality always gives honourable precedence to London's Huguenot community, as a refugee community whose dynamism brought great benefits and prosperity to Britain. The Huguenot churches...
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Brr! I blame Abel Tasman
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...member of the French Protestant Church, he would have welcomed anonymity. Thesewere dangerous times for the Huguenot community, scattered throughout Europe by State-sanctionedreligious cleansing. The desert was in reality the harsh...
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James D. Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow, eds. Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News
; ...essay, The Huguenot Minority in early Modern France, demonstrates how the new Protestant spirituality set the Huguenot community apart from the mainstream Catholic community in seventeenth-century France, and how it shaped their struggles...
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Holiday Resources.(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: The Other Side
; ...saving--over five thousand Jewish lives. Based on biblical stories and ethics, these powerful tales gave the Huguenot community the spiritual courage to live in resistance to Nazi power. The stories are riveting for both children and adults...
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On the diverse duties of the servants of Princes: Lorenz Beger (1653-1705), librarian, antiquarian, and court poet in Heidelberg.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...plusieurs Modernes Celebres dans la Republique des Lettres, by Mr Ancillon, one of the chief representatives of the Huguenot community in Berlin, an intellectual and lawyer, whose Memoires contain a section of over thirty printed sides dedicated...
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Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...stresses contention between Protestants and Catholics, but Raymond A. Mentzer's illustrates the strife within the Huguenot community. Keith P. Luria suggests that under the Edict of Nantes, residents of mixed Protestant and Catholic communities...
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France 'finally facing past'; Warm reception in south for former hidden child
Magazine article from: Washington Jewish Week
; ...central town of Le Chambon Sur Lignon, which rescued some 5,000 refugees during World War II. In this tolerant Huguenot community, the young teen found shelter for most of 1943, after his secular Jewish parents were arrested by French authorities...
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