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(and the answer is NO!)
Tens of thousands more Huguenots came after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
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But they didnt all stay...
Of the 200.000 Huguenots who fled France to England, many were sent on to the New World, to New York and South Carolina..or onto other countries like South Africa..
Their religion and culture was much the same as Britian of that era...
both in England and the New World...
They were hard working artisans and tradesmen, middle class and some nobility...
Few slackers...If they wanted to eat, they shot it or grew it...
Do the European heads of state look yearningly across the pond and wish the industry of my ancestors was back ???
Louis XVI begged their descendants to come back right before the French Revolution..
He was now lacking a strong middle class...and that standing army that had left with them...
they would have had full French citizenship and the right to worship as they chose...
There were few takers...and Louis Capet had his Reign of Terror...
There was a time when the sun never set on the British Empire...
That’s gone now...along with respect for England’s western culture...
The Protestant Dutch were forerunners of the explorers on the seven seas...
Facing down the Catholic Spanish fearlessly on land and sea....
Now they live in terror of Islamics within their own country’s borders...
Austria-Hungary and the German states were once prosperous and strong, controling their borders with laws and cannons....
Now their economies are shot to pieces and they kept using a shoe horn to fit more dependent unassimilating immigrants onto their over taxed soil...
Did these people not learn that once in a while it is not only OK to say NO but necessary ???