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Agrippa d'Aubigné, a nobleman, a reformed French Huguenot squire of Henry IV, who was expelled from France as result of his participation in the conspiracy against Duke of Luynes acquired the rights to the ruins of the chateau.
The Lafon family were descended from French Huguenot immigrants, who settled in Virginia in 1700 above the falls of the James River.
Born into a political family in South Africa, of French Huguenot descent, she started piano lessons with her mother, an opera singer, at age four.
The bird was first described by François Leguat, a French Huguenot refugee marooned on Rodrigues in 1691, and was named leguati in his honour.
In the Western Cape Province, where the pines were according to legend planted by the French Huguenot refugees who settled at the Cape of Good Hope during the late 17th century, and brought the seeds with them from France.
The novel takes place after the events of 1635: The Cannon Law, in which French Huguenot extremist Michel Ducos came close to assassinating Pope Urban VIII and forced to flee with his followers from Rome.
The leaders of the French Huguenot group under Ducos settled in Scotland making plans to embarrass Cardinal Richelieu.
John Robinson, who accompanied the Pilgrims to Holland and thence to America, was his earliest ancestor in this country and in the maternal line he is of French Huguenot descent.
Albany Fonblanque was descended from a noble French Huguenot family, the de Greniers of Languedoc, and was born in London.
Andrew Jr.'s great grandfather was a French Huguenot, a refugee from France at the time of the historic French Revolution.
The first settler of proper record was Frederick DeMouth of French Huguenot extraction.
Based primarily on the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica, the original Brethren were mostly French Huguenot and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities including Spaniards, and even African sailors, as well as escaped slaves and outlaws of various sovereigns.
His grandfather was Daniel Huger Sr (1651–1711), a French Huguenot who was born in Loudun, France and settled in Charleston, South Carolina.
Élie (or Elias) Bouhéreau (1643 – 19 March 1719) was a French Huguenot refugee in Ireland and the first librarian of Marsh's Library in Dublin.
One of the earliest scholars to claim that he could trace the ten lost tribes of Israel to France was the French Huguenot writer, Jacques Abbadie, who fled French Roman Catholic persecution and later settled in London, England.
He was born in Copenhagen to the merchant of French Huguenot origin Jacques Louis Garrigue and his wife Cecile Olivia Duntzfelt, daughter of Christian Vilhelm Duntzfelt and maternal granddaughter of Frédéric de Coninck.
During the trip to Brazil, on July 15, 1570 while sailing near the Canary Islands, the Santiago was attacked and captured by a fleet led by French Huguenot corsair Jacques de Sores.
His mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French Huguenots.
Christened on 7 October 1720 at the French Huguenot Church of St Martin Orgar in Martin Lane, Cannon Street, London, Lewis Devisme was the fourth child and third son of Philippe de Visme, a successful City merchant, by Marianne de la Mejanelle his wife.
Glozier has written works on expatriate soldier groups of French Huguenot and Scottish extraction.
Newton's Parakeet was first written about by the French Huguenot François Leguat in 1708, and was only mentioned a few times by other writers afterwards.
In the 1560s French Huguenot glassmakers brought improved techniques to the area.
It is believed by some that oxtail soup was invented in Spitalfields in London in the seventeenth century by French Huguenot and Flemish immigrants, from the tails of animals.
He was the son of Theodore Martine, a grocer and realtor, descended from French Huguenot immigrants.