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Huguenot
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Huguenot
1. a French Calvinist, esp of the 16th or 17th centuries
2. designating the French Protestant Church


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But, first, reflect on how poorer this country would be without successive generations of immigrants - the successive waves of Jewish settlers from the 11th century to the 20th, the weavers from the Low Countries 500 years ago, the Hugenots, the Chinese, the Italians, the Poles who in the Second World War helped the fight against Hitler's vile Nazism.
These ten essays describe the facets of that power and career and include commentary on the roles of rhetoric and identity in his early career, his varied relations with Milton and Marvell, his bombastic newspaper, his relations with the Hugenots and continental Protestantism, his use of fable, his life in music, and his knowledge of the trustworthiness of seventeenth-century information.
Later on, Hugenots and Irish immigrants came in search of work.
 
 
 
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