Mareen Duvall was a French Huguenot and an early American settler.
Coat of arms of Mareen Duvall
The Huguenots are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of burgomaster Besançon Hugues, who defended
Mareen Duvall
…Mareen Duvall (1625–1694) was a French Huguenot and an early American settler. Mareen Duvall was born in 1625, in Nantes, France, and was originally named Marin Duval. On August 28, 1650, Duvall…
Persecution of the Waldensians in the massacre of Mérindol in 1545
Huguenots massacring Catholics in the Michelade in Nîmes
John Everett Millais' painting, A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Protestants (1572). It was the climax of the French Wars of Religion, which were brought to an end by the Edict of Nantes (1598). In 1620, persecution was renewed and continued until the French Revolution in 1789.