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Excerpt from Commemoration of the Bi-Centenary of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, October 22d, 1885, at New York The last meeting of the Huguenot Society of America was held at New Rochelle on the a4th. Of August, the anniversary of the Ma-s sacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572, when the Pope of Rome, through his Nuncio, advised the King of France of the desire of His Holiness, for the great glory of God and the greatest welfare of France, to see. All the heretics of the kindom extirpated. The Royal assassin died at the age of twenty-four, leaving that desire of His Holiness unfulfilled. It was reserved for that most Christian and grand monarch, Louis XIV., more than a century later, to renew the persecution of the Huguenots by a crime of similar magnitude; and with folly with-out a parallel, to lose for France, by means similarly atrocious, hundreds of thousands of those same heretics, who carried industry, intelligence and pros perity, light, truth and happiness, to other lands, including our own. Of the number lost to France, Sismondi computes the total number of emigrants at from to and thinks that an equal number perished in prison, on the scaffold, at the galleys, or in their attempts to escape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.