2-325-629 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Reception the French Protestants in Amsterdam, late 17th century (c1870). Large numbers of Protestant French Huguenots emigrated to the Calvinist Dutch Republic after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. It has been estimated that by c1700, a quarter of the population of Amsterdam were Huguenots. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J van Lenner and J ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870).