The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . d against whatwere called the accomplices of the deserters. It is said that in the space of five years the emigrantscarried out of the kingdom no less than sixty millions ofFrench money. A large number of the richer refugees madetheir way to Holland and settled in Amsterdam and otherplaces. But the loss to France in money thus drained fromit was trifling in comparison to that of its population, for theProtestants were universally acknowledged to be the steadiestand most industrious of the Kings subjects, the be
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . d against whatwere called the accomplices of the deserters. It is said that in the space of five years the emigrantscarried out of the kingdom no less than sixty millions ofFrench money. A large number of the richer refugees madetheir way to Holland and settled in Amsterdam and otherplaces. But the loss to France in money thus drained fromit was trifling in comparison to that of its population, for theProtestants were universally acknowledged to be the steadiestand most industrious of the Kings subjects, the best me-chanics and manufacturers, and the most successful these it is reckoned that at the lowest computation hardlyless than two hundred and fifty thousand emigrated duringthe period between the revocation of the edict of Nantes andthe end of the seventeenth century. We are assured that,before the year 1689, nine thousand of the best of the Frenchsailors, and twelve thousand soldiers, with six hundredofficers, had passed into the service of foreign states.— >^jjlg§
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