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From: "Marc Demarest" <>
Subject: [HWE] A propos of the "hundreds of thousands" of refugees
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:23:14 -0800
In-Reply-To: <001701c714f3$b1935620$f8f2ecdc@KAYP4300>



in yesterday's wondrous bit of ahistorical book review-ery... I will pass by
the evil "Kings of France" in that (oh, how I
long to launch into my "no such thing as the unitary French state" diatribe
;->), and go straight to the numbers, suggesting that those of us interested
in the statistical history of the Huguenots would do well to get a copy of
Philip Benedict's *The Huguenot Population of France, 1660-1685: The
Demographic Fate and Customs Of A Religious Minority* (ISBN: 90-56477).

Totally worth the price of admission. A nugget from the beginning:

"...a more accurate approximation of the total number of Protestants living
with (the geographic confines of the French state as of 1610) in the years
1660-70 might place the figure at just under 800,000 people..." (p. 9)

Maps, stats, population demographics. A treat.




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