 | 1889 - 694 sivua
...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... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1836 - 498 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 730 sivua
...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... | |
 | Frederick II (King of Prussia) - 1842 - 462 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1846 - 480 sivua
...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....less flourishing, and the condition of the people in no respect any better in 1785, than in 1685 ; and this cause, which depressed France is probably... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1846 - 674 sivua
...it was during the first ten. In fact, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV. in 1085, had such an effect upon France, by driving out of...less flourishing, and the condition of the people in no respect any hetter in 1785, than in 1685 ; and this cause, which depressed France is probably... | |
 | Edward Bruce (bookseller.), John Bruce - 1846 - 398 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 536 sivua
...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... | |
 | Samuel Salt - 1850 - 260 sivua
...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... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1852 - 688 sivua
...The revocation of the Edict of IX'anto', by Louis XIV., in 1685, had such an effect upon Franco, hy driving out of the kingdom half a million or more...condition of the people not much better in 1785, than in 16S5; and this cause, which depressed France, is ono of the principal causes of the progress and improvement... | |
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In fact, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV. in 1685... 
