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From: "Shirley Arabin" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] COTTIN FAMILIES
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:50:39 +1300
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When we attended the Reunion Internationale de Descendants de Huguenots in
France in 1985, 1988 and 1994, Thierry de Pasquier was President of the
Comite Protestant des Amities Francaises a L'Etranger at the World Huguenot
Centre.
He spoke on some of the occasions in French, English and German a paragraph
at a time. He is a banker by profession but has a great interest in the
whaling industry as some of his ancestors went to America and were whalers
in the New England area. He has written a book on whaling including a
section on whaling in New Zealand.
He decided at the 1988 reunion that was based in Nimes that the
international visitors would thank the locals at each venue we visited.
About 10 minutes before we arrived on a little train in the Cevenol at St
John du Gard he announced that yours truly should make the speech. Not
being fluent in anything but English that was what they heard with a few
Maori words thrown in.
BTW St John du Gard was where the Travels with a Donkey by RLS ended.
Shirley

>One of the COTTIN sources I have is a chapter in the book
> "Genealogies Huguenotes" by Thierry Du Pasquier, pub. by Editions
> Christian, Parish, 1985 ( in French). Chapter Six is called "LES COTTIN,
> ALLIES DES GIRARDOT". The book was written to commemorate the
> tricentenary
> of the Revoc. of Edict of Nantes and concentrates mainly on the story of
> some Protestants who remained in France after that event. Pasquier is or
> was a member of the Society of the History of French Protestantism.

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