...Among the Huguenot exiles who left their homes in the province of Languedoc, in France, by reason of the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685, were three brothers, Matthew, Francis and John De la Garrigue. Escaping from France they landed on...

...Bordeaux, some French Protestants having emigrated thither from the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, upoa the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV., in 1685. Half a mile farther on, is the village of Straiton. About a mile beyond this, upon the right, is seen...

...Bourdeaux, some French Protestants having emigrated thither from the neighbourhood of Bourdeaux, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. in 1685. Half-a-mile farther on, is the village of Straiton. About a mile beyond this, upon the right, is seen...

...of Guinea. Trade and manufactures assumed a totally different aspect in the Marks. In consequence of the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. in 1685, upwards of 20,000 Protestant refugees settled in the dominions of Brandenburg, where Frederick William,...

...Europe and America, during the last ten years of that period, as it was during the first ten. In fact, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV. in 1685, had such an effect upon France, by driving out of the kingdom half a million or more of her most skilful...

...the massacre of St. Bartholomew's day, on the 24th of August, 1572, ninety thousand were slain. By the revocation of the edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV. in 1685, 500,000 of the best citizens of France were driven into exile, carrying with them to Britain and other...

...in 1704, by a body of the Huguenots, who fled from France, after enduring much persecution, through the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. in 1685. These enterprizing strangers also founded a small town about twenty miles from New York, which they...

...printing was introduced into England from France. It ranks amongst those advantages which England gamed by the revocation of the edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV., in 1685. 1693. A prescriptive claim, set up by the lord of the manor, for a duty of twopence per pack on all...

...reformed faith maintained for more than a century an unequal contest with the persecuting government. From the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV, in 1685, a civil war raged in the Cevennes and the surrounding provinces. At first the victims yielded patiently...

...if a well known mechanical establishment, with a tall, tubular chimney, were not Funnel Hall ? After the revocation of the edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV., in 1685, the Faneuils, in common with many other Huguenots of France, — the Baudouins, the Bernons, the Sigourneys,...