My Life and Times (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from My Life and Times I am a Huguenot of the Huguenots. Every drop of blood in my veins is French, with only one drop of Dutch added, as appears from the genealogical tree of which a brief sketch follows. Yet whatever the constituents of my blood, South Africa is my country, and I am a South African, proud both of my country and of my people. The genealogy referred to has as its heading an introductory paragraph, in which the first known ancestor of our family is stated to have been Antonius Faure, or, as our Latinized forefathers in the Middle Ages wrote it: Faurus. In alluding to this ancestor we are indeed transported to the confines of the Middle Ages, for the year of his birth was 1553, and he died in 1620. He bore the title of Knight, Baron of Peroges, and was First President of the Council of Savoy. He is described as "celebrated both on account of the important offices held by him at Court and for his learning, as illustrated by his excellent writings." He was born at Bourg, in the Province of Bresse, near Dauphine, "where, as well as in Languedoc and Angouleme, the family was distinguished for its noble birth, position and inter-marriage with the first families." His wife was named Benoite Faure, Lady of Vaugelas. The above, however, does not exhaust the merits of my esteemed forefather and his Lady. They placed the world under an obligation to them by presenting it with sixteen sons, but we are left in ignorance as to the number of daughters that gathered around the old couple´s hospitable board. Of this noble army of sixteen, I have particulars concerning two, Pierre and Jean, both of whom, being Huguenots, had to flee from France when the Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685. They left Orange, where they had settled, and took refuge in Holland, then the stronghold of Protestantism in Europe, and the asylum, which it has ever been, for all victims of religious intolerance. Jean went to Bergen op Zoom and Pierre to Borkulo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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