FIGURES HUGUENOTES DANS LES AMÉRIQUES: DE L'HISTOIRE À LA MÉMOIRE. Edited by MickaëlAugeron. Enquêtes et documents, Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique, Universités de Nantes et La Rochelle, 64. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020. Pp. 207; Photos; Paper; $20.00.
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Abstract
From before the first American Huguenot worship service (Brazil, 1557), refugee/expatriate persons of the persecuted Protestant minority of France contributed to developing the French, British, and Dutch empires' American colonies and the USA. In the historiography and collective memories, these persons were often forgotten or became the subject of myths created to increase or decrease their status in the Americas. The book's goal is to critically examine narratives of and myths about selected individuals and their contributions to the creation of the Europeanized Americas. Augeron, University of La Rochelle, France, curated twelve essays by an international team of contributors. The Huguenot expatriates included pastors, soldiers, sailors, plantation owners, administrators, and merchants. Many were slave owners and traffickers. The studies of Huguenot presence and influence in the Americas include: John de Bry on Jean Ribault (Florida); Leslie Choquette on Pierre Dugua (Acadia, Port Royal, co-founder/funder of Quebec); Pieter Emmer on Maria Susanna du Plessis (Surinam); Bouda Etemad on the Dupeyrou Palace of Neuchâtel (Surinam; Switzerland); Florence Gasmarini on Louis Dubois (New Paltz, NY) and on “The Guillbeau House” (South Carolina); Gilles Havard examined narratives claiming Huguenot ancestry for Davy Crockett (Tennessee); Gérard Lafleur on the French Antilles; Robert Larin on Huguenots of New France; Owen Stanwood on Ezechiel Carré, minister/author, 1680–1690, in the French community of Narragansett Colony (Rhode Island); Bertrand Van Ruymbeke on Huguenots in the USA Revolution, including John Jay and Henry Laurens; Anne Wegener Sleeswijk on Jean Nepveu (Suriname). The introductions of Augeron orient the reader to historical and historiographical contexts and bring coherence to the book. Unfortunately, the volume presents minimal information about expatriate Huguenot networks, legal status, reception of Huguenots in the diverse colonies, connections to family in France, the legality of marriages between Protestants in French colonies, and the legitimacy of their children, worship, or theology. There is also no index to facilitate access to the data-heavy texts. However, the volume is important to Transatlantic Studies and French Protestant history. It will be disappointing for some to learn that Davy Crockett was not of Huguenot descent. David Bundy Manchester Wesley Research Centre
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.004 |
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