I belong to the Australian Huguenot Society, but living in Queensland cannot get to meetings. However, the Magazine is a good publication. Kay Gassan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrea Vogel" <andreav@island.net> To: <huguenots-walloons-europe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [HWE] Australian Huguenot Society > From Tony <fuller.tony@wanadoo.fr> > re: Secretary of the Australian Huguenot > Society who is: > > <....... an irregular poster on the other list.> > > Thanks, Tony. That doesn't help us here > on this list though. Name doesn't ring a > bell but I could be wrong. He might be > here too. > Anyway, I'm hoping that some of our > HWE subscribers on the underside of > the planet can be lured out of their deep > camouflage by this topic. Perhaps > some of them will even share wondrous > tales of their Huguenot ancestry with us. > It might work.....Let's wait and see...... > (as always, hope springs eternal). On > the other hand, Shirley might pop > up again with some info. Andrea > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

in yesterday's wondrous bit of ahistorical book review-ery... I will pass by the evil "Kings of France" in that (oh, how I long to launch into my "no such thing as the unitary French state" diatribe ;->), and go straight to the numbers, suggesting that those of us interested in the statistical history of the Huguenots would do well to get a copy of Philip Benedict's *The Huguenot Population of France, 1660-1685: The Demographic Fate and Customs Of A Religious Minority* (ISBN: 90-56477). Totally worth the price of admission. A nugget from the beginning: "...a more accurate approximation of the total number of Protestants living with (the geographic confines of the French state as of 1610) in the years 1660-70 might place the figure at just under 800,000 people..." (p. 9) Maps, stats, population demographics. A treat.