Reception of the French Calvinist Protestant refugees (Huguenots) by the Great Elector in Potsdam Castle, 1685. French Protestants fleeing their country after the abolishment of the Edict of Nantes, seen here during the audience at the court of Frederick William (1640-1688), Elector of Brandenburg. From Ilustracion Artistica, published 1887.

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