Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century . ealthy landlords, belonged to the labour-ing classes, and do not come into our subject. The Huguenotrefugees, exiled for their religious opinions, were either of theupper and mercantile class, or skilled artisans in all branchesof industry. With a singular lack of prudence, the bigotryof Louis XIV. sent forth these men to teach other nationsthe arts formerly known only on the Continent. TheHuguenots, like their countrymen who were driven out ofFrance during the revolution of 1792, played a distinguishedpart in the country which many of them
Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century . ealthy landlords, belonged to the labour-ing classes, and do not come into our subject. The Huguenotrefugees, exiled for their religious opinions, were either of theupper and mercantile class, or skilled artisans in all branchesof industry. With a singular lack of prudence, the bigotryof Louis XIV. sent forth these men to teach other nationsthe arts formerly known only on the Continent. TheHuguenots, like their countrymen who were driven out ofFrance during the revolution of 1792, played a distinguishedpart in the country which many of them adopted, neverreturning to their own land to take their place as this way we find in Ireland the naturalized names ofBusse, Des Voeux, Chaigneau, DOlier, Le Fanu, LEstrange, Elizabeth La Tone he, Countess of Lanesboroiigh. 193 Maturin, Saurin, Lefroy, Le Nauze, Perrin, Cromelin,Borough, derived from Boroher and La Touche. These names for many years stood first in all the learnedprofessions, and to the energy of these men was due much of. COUNTESS OF LANESBOROUGH. the progress made in Ireland during the eighteenth centuryin intellectual as well as mercantile matters. To them Dublinowed her first literary journal and her first horticulturalsociety; while the linen and silk manufactures were broughtto the highest standard, and their products sought for inhome and foreign markets. 0 194 Some Celebrated Irish Beauties of Last Century. The most prominent members of the Huguenot colony wereundoubtedly to be found in the La Touche family. They were,according to Lodge and Whitelaw, of English descent, bearingoriginally the surname of Digges/ They, however, left theirnative country in the reign of Henry II., and settledthemselves at Blois, where they had large possessions—amongst them the estate from which they took their nameLa Touche. In their adopted country they rose to highplaces, and were ennobled and distinguished by peculiarprivileges. In the 17th century, the doctr
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