Typing into a Google search "Huguenot Bartholmew Dupuy" should get you there.
It is a flawed masterpiece at best. In my family line, tracing it down to the later 19th century where I have other sources to verify names and dates, I find the majority of the dates contain errors and the names misspellings. The first pages or so of the page book are devoted to history rather than a listing of trees. Here, too, I find problems among the treasures. The first section is an 85 page history of Huguenots in France. The language is florid to todays tastes, and I found a major misconception that led me astray for years. Near the end of this history, it states as many as , citizens fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in He gave the heretics six months to leave or face prosecution, confiscation of lands, etc.
It gives the impression that after the six months, there were no more Huguenots in France. It was only years later when I met online some internet cousins who provided me with the details of another branch of my ancestors I had previously be unable to trace back before the Civil War. Though their surname was Rogers, it turns our in France it was Roger, pronounced like the name of the thesaurus. They were Huguenots who fled France in They too, made their way to England, joined a larger group of Huguenots who had petitioned the English government for a grant of land in America, and settled on that land in SE South Carolina with their fellow Huguenots.
The Huguenot Sword: A Review
Reading about the Huguenots in my Encyclopedia Britannica confirmed the Dupuy book's view of the end of Huguenots in France. But reading modern sources states that perhaps as many Huguenots as fled stayed behind, merely hiding their religious preferences to whatever degree necessary to avoid arrest.
This was easier than it might appear, as most Huguenots lived in the same neighborhoods, villages, and regions. You might be well advised to brush up your knowledge of Huguenots in Wikipedia, rather than the Dupuy book For those who can't get enough, there is an amazing novel with the Huguenot tragedy as its background published in Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk.
Where Faith and Fiction Collide – Sharing My Journey
An insider's tip is try to get the English edition rather than the American, as it has a better ending. Also, a great source for the history of this first major Huguenot settlement in America is the website for the society of descendants under Manikan. The next section of the book is a review of the historic Bartholomew Dupuy in France, and it gives a dozen generation or more pedigree for him going back to a Crusader named DuPuy who was the military governor of Jerusalem.
I consider all this horsefeathers, though my relative I inherited the book from believed in it with all his heart and soul. His middle name was Dupuy, given him in honor of his great grandmother, Olympia Dupuy, through which his family could claim their French Protestant heirtage. However, back in the late 19th century, it also gave a much valued cache of being able to claim one was descended from European nobility, as the Dupuy book claims it was Count Bartholomew and Countess Susan.
I would have to see considerable verifiable documentation of these claims to accept them. Rather, I remember reading some years ago that the profession of genealogist came into vogue in New York around as large numbers of nouveau riche industrialists and robber barons who lived like royalty wanted to justify their social position with pedigrees.
Some of these genealogists were scam artists, only too willing to provide an appropriate tree for a fee.
I suspect the European side of the Dupuy tree is one such fraudulent document. There is one final document in this Dupuy history section for those in love with the romance of it. I started the story when I was sixteen, and now 35 years later, it is in finally in print. The nobility scorned them as ruffians.
The situation becomes desperate when those in power launch a bold plan to destroy the group. One wrong move can be fatal. But the ordeal of Paris pales in comparison to the possible annihilation of the faith and people at the Battle of La Rochelle. This cover is just so catchy, I love it. Keep up the great work, Shawn! It sounds like your book adheres to a very classical structure, Shawn.
The Huguenot Sword by Shawn Lamb - FictionDB
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