[Magdalen] Huguenot Heritage.

[Joseph Cirou]

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>From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
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>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Huguenot Heritage.
>I think we had some Huguenots in our family, but they were (at least in public) converts to Catholicism.
I haven't my copy of the reference by Archange Godbout of the immigrants who passed through La Rochelle, but some of them had been Huguenots before they came to Quebec.

Joe
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>In a message dated 1/1/2015 3:33:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>sally.davies at gmail.com writes:
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>. It's  sadly ironic that a
>people with so much reason to celebrate religious  freedom eventually made
>it their business to oppress others. Franschhoek  >>>>
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>The Huguenots made themselves easy to loath by the majority
>French with their penchant for iconoclasm.  They were experts at
>smashing everything they didn't like, especially Catholic churches.
>The medieval cathedral at Orleans, France was literally razed by
>Huguenots, and there had to be built a completely new church in
>the nineteenth century.
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>David S.