French Colonists and Exiles in the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from French Colonists and Exiles in the United StatesSenator Lodge's Century (september, 1891) article on The Distribution of Ability in the United States, reprinted in his Historical and Political Essays (boston, gives a very high standard to the French, including the Huguenot Protestant French who came here during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cen turies, either direct from France, or by way of England and Holland, and the French descend ants of the original settlers in Louisiana, Mis souri, and Illinois, of soldiers who came with Rochambeau, or refugees who ¿ed here from France and from St. Domingo in 1792. He gives in his Division Of Races, based on Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography, Huguenot 589, French 85, among statesmen, soldiers, clergy, lawyers, physi cians, literary men, artists, scientists, edu cators, sailors, business men, philanthropists.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.