My cousin says my family resisted prosecution because they lived in remote villages in the Cevennes, but came to Switzerland after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes.
My best,
Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
pnagami wrote: ↑June 14th, 2019, 1:56 pm
Hi Barbara,
My cousin says my family resisted prosecution because they lived in remote villages in the Cevennes, but came to Switzerland after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes.
My best,
Pam
Mme de La Tour du Pin went that way when she was a girl and fell in love with mountains as a result - I remember looking up the Cevennes at the time. Googled just now - "the borders were closed [after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes] in response to the exodus of protestants from the area and the resulting economic losses."
So interesting that you have that toehold in history.
The eleven-year-old future Duc de Sully probably didn't dress up as a Catholic priest, but he did, in fact, escape the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by carrying a Catholic book of hours under his arm.
My best,
Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
The eleven-year-old future Duc de Sully probably didn't dress up as a Catholic priest, but he did, in fact, escape the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by carrying a Catholic book of hours under his arm.
My best,
Pam
It seems ages since I listened to this section because our server at Internet Archive was down for ....I think it would have been most of yesterday and last night, my time. But all is well again. And the section is PL OK!
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