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From: Hans and Sharon Urdahl <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Huguenot book
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:40:59 -0700


UPS! Sorry ! A correction the title of the book is ...French Huguenots:
Mediterranean Catholics to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.... I was in a rush
when I sent the message and didn't proof read. Sharon

Andrea Vogel wrote:

> Bon jour, fellow Hug. listers -- while looking through the FHL Catalog on
> the LDS website (www.familysearch.org) I saw the following book under Place
> Search for France, subheading Minorities. I thought I would pass this info
> along in case anyone else is interested. I haven't read the book myself,
> merely saw it listed on this site, but it looks very interesting.
> The author is Abraham D. Lavender (which I had not realized before was
> Huguenot -- I have seen it many times in parish records of east Kent, ENG).
> The book's title is French Huguenots: Mediterranean Catholics to White
> Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It has 264 pages, is indexed and has a 20 page
> bibliography. It was published c1990 in New York by Peter Lang. The ISBN is
> 07400462, the ISSN 082041136.
> Unfortunately, LDS has not filmed it but, if anyone is lucky enough to
> be going to Salt Lake, the call numbers are 973/F2Lav. The book summary says
> that the book outlines the "development of the Huguenot Protestants of
> France as they broke from the traditional Catholic society in the beginning
> of the early 1500's and goes to the early 1800's in the United
> States......and how the Huguenots became a prominent part of Anglo-Saxon
> Protestant culture but also kept a French identity, bridging two contrasting
> cultures."
> Hope someone finds this of interest. I wonder if the book is readily
> available? Not published that long ago -- but my experience has been that,
> if a book was published as an academic text not meant for the general public
> (which this might be), the price is "out of sight". Regards, Andrea
> (Vancouver Island, BC, Canada)

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