From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58621
Date: 2008-05-18
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other
anti-linguists
>
> --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
>
> . . .
>>
>> I have never heard about that,
>> and it clearly conflicts with the wikipedia article.
>> About Alsace and Huguenot
>> in both French and English.
>> None mentions any Huguenot in Alsace,
>> and the article about Alsace actually mentions
>> Anabaptists fleeing from
>> Swiss into Alsace !!
>>
>> I definitely do not buy your story.
>>
>> Arnaud
>> ==========
> The part about the Anabaptist is true --my ancestors
> named Zirkle, Keller, Bosshart, etc. fled Switzerland
> to Alsace but had to leave Alsace when Louis XIV
> arrived c. 1700. Do some research
>
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Wikipedia states the influx of Anabaptists lasted until 1711
and that the French control was complete in 1679
Something does not fit in your story
France already was administering this area
when people took refuge there.
Between 1671-1711 Anabaptist refugees came from Switzerland, notably from
Bern. Strasbourg became a main center of the early Anabaptist movement.
France consolidated its hold with the 1679 Treaties of Nijmegen which
brought the towns under her control.
Arnaud
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