Marc, Thank you for locating that reference & posting it. Very helpful, and your summary comments make it clear that all was not as it seems on paper. Marcia On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:04 AM, Marc Demarest wrote: > > In answer to the question "When were Huguenots prohibited from > acting as > royal officials?" this, from Roger Mettam's excellent "Louis XIV > and the > Persection of the Huguenots" (which can be found in Irene > Scouloudi, ed. > Huguenots in Britain and their French Background, 1550-1800. > Published by > the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland). >