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Huguenot Biographies:

Information on this page is listed alphabetically by surname. Not everyone mentioned is famous or well known.

This listing is not meant to be an endorsement or a recommendation of a particular website or book, nor does it vouch for the accuracy of the information in any of the following sources.

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~ Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605), born in Vézelay, Burgundy, FRA and died at Geneva. He was a French Calvinist theologian who joined Calvin at Geneva in the mid-1500s, becoming his friend and chief aid and later succeeding him as head of the Protestant Reformation in Geneva. Biographical information de Bèze about can be found at: http://www.rsglh.org/beza.htm with a shorter biography at: http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/Beza-The.html.

There is also a book titled Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France, 1572-1598 by Scott M. Manetsch (Pub. Brill, Boston, Leiden & Koln, 2000. ISBN: , Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill 2000, ISBN: 90-04-11101-8) It's part of the series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought. To access a review (written in German) of Manetsch's book, go to: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensio/buecher/2000/zwco1100.htm.

~ Correspondence of Abel Boyer, Huguenot refugee (1667-1729), ed. Rex A. Barrell (Pub. Edwin Mellen, 1992. ISBN: 0-7734-9488-x) Boyer settled in England in 1689 and, in 1692, was appointed French tutor to the Duke of Gloucester. Boyer's Royal Dictionary (in two parts. ie. French-English and English-French) was so successful that few other English/French bilingual dictionaries were published in the eighteenth century. It was published in London in 1699 when many English/French lexicographers were French Protestants and when there was a great interest in the French language among educated English. Boyer was apparently "a voluminous producer of books, pamphlets and contributions to journalism", being the author of, for example, the History of William III (1702) and also History of Queen Anne (1722). Further information about Boyer can be found at: http://www.bartleby.com/219/0814.html#txt43 (Historical and Political Writers)

~ www.protestants.org/faq/histoire/htm/durand.htm Marie Durand

~ Les Guerin: a Story of Religious Persecution, by William Guerrant Leech, edited and revised by Galen R. Kline. (Pub: Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin, VA, USA.) This book is a fictionalized account of the mid-1600s, set in the high mountains of the Dauphiné region in southern France. Includes political and religious background, weaving actual historical figures and events into the story.

~ http://www.webpak.net/~westgoth/Jeanne.html Titled A Faithful Huguenot Queen, this webpage is about Queen Jeanne d'Albret of Navarre (1528-1572), the only child of King Henry II of Navarre and Marguerite d'Angouleme, and whose uncle (her mother's brother) was King Francis I of France. Jeanne became Queen of Navarre after her father died in early 1555 and she appears to have had an interest in the Reformed faith dating from about this time. Among her accomplishments were: reforming laws, giving aid and assistance to the poor, and establishing colleges for theological students in the Reformed faith. In addition, she gave support to Reformed pastors and encouraged translation of the Bible into the dialects of southern France. During the religious wars in France, she gave assistance to the Protestant war effort.

~ http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fmarryat.htm & http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/mary.htm Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), born in London, was not himself a Huguenot but he was descended from Protestants who had fled Normandy at the time of the St Bartholomew`s Day massacre in 1572. "English naval officer and novelist whose adventure stories became very popular in the first half of the 19th century." Most of Marryat's books were based on his own experiences at sea.

~ Elizabeth Saint Michel (or De St. Michael) was the wife of Samuel PEPYS, the famous diarist who recorded everyday life in London (England) in the 1660s. Elizabeth, who was the daughter of a Huguenot refugee, was born in 1640 in Bideford, Devon. If anyone knows of an online biography for Elizabeth, please contact the HWE list administrator (see e-mail address below) so the link can be added here.

~ http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/suzanne.html This is short biographical sketch which tells the story of Suzanne Rochet (Michaux). She was one of the daughters of Jean Rochet who fled from France to the Netherlands in 1685. Suzanne was married to Abraham Michaux in Amsterdam in 1692 and by the early 1700s, the family was living in London, England. Then, like many French Protestants, Suzanne and her family emigrated yet again, this time to Virginia in North America where she died in 1744. This story is typical of the many thousands of refugees who fled their homes in France, then moved on to several different countries on more than one continent.

~ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Viete.html François Viète was a French mathematician who was born in 1540 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou (now Vendée), FRA -- about 50 km east of the coastal town of La Rochelle -- and died 13 Dec 1603 in Paris. He was educated as a lawyer but spent most of his life working in the field of mathematics and mathematical astronomy, publishing works on these subjects.

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