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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And yet French society slowly, oftentimes begrudgingly, accepted the Huguenot presence ... England, and North America for generations to come. Some readers will accuse Treasure of a turgid ...

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.

‘It gives you a sense of how life evolved in America ... according to Historic Huguenot Street’s website. While New Paltz remained French at its core in those early years, others soon joined ...

Pierre’s son Augustus Jay emigrated in 1686 to New York where he married Anna Marie Bayard, descendant of French Huguenots. John Jay married Sarah Livingston in 1774. He became president of ...

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 ...