Tag Archives: Huguenots

The Huguenots

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

I have mentioned before the industrious Samuel Smiles, Victorian believer in hard work and self-education (otherwise known as pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps) as the way to social improvement and financial prosperity. His 1867 work on the Huguenot communities … Continue reading →

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A Memoir of Gabriel Beranger

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Cambridge Library Collection

Yes, folks, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes strikes again! This time it was Ireland rather than England that got the benefit of Louis XIV’s intolerance, albeit after an indirect journey via the Netherlands. Gabriel Beranger (1729–1817) was, as … Continue reading →

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Roget’s Thesaurus

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Cambridge Library Collection

What do John Romilly, the Master of the Rolls who initiated the Rolls Series of historical documents, Gabriel Beranger, whose ‘labours in the cause of Irish art and antiquities from 1760 to 1780’ were memorialised by Oscar Wilde’s father (and … Continue reading →

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