[Twinkie]

France can kiss my grits. I’m a Huguenot who came to
America & fought in the American Revolution AFTER we were
slaughtered and thrown out of France by the Catholic priests. - I used to wonder why my grandparents were so
hostile to the Catholic hierarchy & staunchly Protestant.

[calenel]

I’m a Huguenot who came to America & fought in the American Revolution AFTER we were slaughtered and thrown out of France by the Catholic priests.

Wow. You're really old. Thank you for your service!

LOL ;)

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Do you know that the incident that triggered the wars and events leading to Huguenot expulsion was the Montpellier Cathedral massacre — of Catholics, by Huguenots. There were many, many incidents of murder, iconoclasm, riot, destruction, burning by Huguenots. Of course, they were murdered and mistreated as well, but they were by no means an innocent group themselves.

Remember also, the French fought against popes, imprisoned popes on occasion, and sacked the Papal States...France was not a papal lapdog. The French government was controlled and influenced by turns by ardent Catholics, disinterested Catholics, and Huguenots. France was primarily interested in maintaining the order and cohesiveness of the country, and the Huguenots made themselves as troublesome to that end as the French-Algerians of today. Their eventual expulsion was, you might say, "nothing personal, just business."

The history of religious interaction is seldom as one-sided as any of us would like to believe.

[Pelham]

Manakin Town ancestors in my line