The corruptions of French names have been in many instances ... departure upon France is the other. The study of the Huguenots in America brings out strongly their value as a people.

The Huguenots in America, however, have for nearly two centuries maintained their own places of worship. The French Church in this city has, for a great part of its long and honorable history ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Huguenots, a group of Christian believers originating in France, were part of the larger Protestant Reformation which swept across Northern Europe in the 16th century.

The persecution of French Protestants coincided with ... as the first professional female portrait artist in America, painting mainly Huguenots. Other family members, including Rene, also cast ...

Recently the Fontaine and Maury Society of America gathered in Williamsburg ... This last Fontaine wrote in French “A Tale of the Huguenots.” Contemporary descendants of the scholarly and ...

Powerful words similar to “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” would have been music to the ears of French Protestants called Huguenots, but that was not the case.

Yet scholars have directed a disproportionate amount of attention toward colonial America’s French refugees. This is partially due to the Huguenot backgrounds of some famous American figures ...

This caused approximately half a million French Protestants to ... contributed to Virginia’s (and America’s) phenomenal success. He will follow one Huguenot family from Sedan, France, to ...