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Huguenots - in South Africa Part two

Last month I wrote about the Huguenots who left France and settled in South Africa, this month I will continue their story which is of...

Huguenots - in South Africa Part 1

The global diaspora of French Huguenots includes those who travelled to South Africa. Within the pages of my book – The Story of the...

Huguenots: Visiting your Huguenot roots

It is said that even though your original homeland was forsaken by your ancestor many decades or even centuries before, the desire to...

Huguenot of renown - Denis Papin

On a recent visit to Blois I was delighted to find the town commemorating one of its famous sons. Denis Papin has been born in Blois on...

HUGUENOTS AND THE NEW WORLD

In my last blog I said I would next write about the global diaspora of Huguenots. When these people left their homeland often their...

Huguenots - Faith hope and charity

Huguenots were forged by adversity. They were persecuted, imprisoned, even put to death, but their indomitable spirit was neither beaten...

Huguenots - the elusive ancestors

Many people at some point in their lives will begin to wonder what their family origins are. For most the start of the journey into their...

Lockdown – a modern incarceration

We have all experienced during this last year periods of great restraint in our lives, such as limitations on when we leave home, where...

Journeys of fear and of hope

My last blog spoke of the sheer desperation felt by Huguenots as one by one almost all of the safeguards within the Edict of Nantes were...

The first "dragonnade" in Poitou (1681)

I would like you try to imagine what it would have been like to fell forced to flee your homeland, especially during unfavourable weather...

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