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At a time when newspapers are filled with stories of the travails of emigrants fleeing civil and religious unrest, this study of the experience of Huguenots who fled to the Dutch Republic after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 is particularly welcome. In contrast to previous studies of the Huguenots’ flight, which have tended to focus on the persecutions that drove them to seek refuge abroad or to analyse their dispersion among the countries that received them, David van der Linden is interested in the social experience of the emigrés. He seeks to move us beyond the heroic narrative of suffering and brave escape that earlier generations crafted to claim the rightful place in history that they thought the Huguenot refugees had been denied. Rather than focusing selectively on the contributions that famous emigrés made to the letters, science and technology of the places where they made their new homes, so as to show that France’s loss was others’ gain, van der Linden seeks to assess the experience of the refugees more broadly and to uncover the difficulties they experienced as they sought to integrate themselves into their new surroundings.
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