Suggested Reading on Huguenot History

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This information was taken from the list of suggested reading from The National Huguenot Society, for more information visit their site here.

The following books are suggested for learning more about Huguenot history. Many of these books can be found in your local, genealogical, and state lending libraries, and some are available for purchase through online bookstores such as AMAZON.COM, Barnes and Noble, Genealogical Publishing Company, or Clearfield Publishing Company.

  • Baird, Charles W., D.D.    History of the Huguenot Emigration to America.    2 vols. 1885.   Reprint (2 vols. in 1).   Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1966.   Reissued Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991.
  • Brock, R. A.    Documents Chiefly Unpublished, Relating to the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement of Manakin-Town, with an Appendix of Genealogies, Presenting Data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and Other Families .   To which is added: “Communication from Governor Francis Nicholson Concerning the Huguenot Settlements with ‘List of Refugees,’ 1700.”    1886.   Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979.
  • Buisseret, David.    Henry IV.    Boston: George Allen & Unwin, Inc., 1984.
  • Butler, Jon.    The Huguenots in America, A Refugee People in New World Society.    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.
  • Cabell, Priscilla Harriss.    Turff & Twigg. Vol. 1, The French Lands.    Richmond: Priscilla Harriss Cabell, 1988.
  • Cameron, Euan.    The European Reformation.    Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1991.
  • Changing Identities in Early Modern France.    Ed. Michael Wolfe.   Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1997.
  • Coudy, Julian.    The Huguenot Wars: An Eyewitness Account.    Chilton Book Company, 1969.
  • Currier-Briggs, Noel, and Royston Gambier.    Huguenot Ancestry.    Phillimore, 1985.
  • Diefendorf, Barbara B.    Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris.    New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Dodge, Guy Howard.    The Political Theory of the Huguenots of the Dispersion with Special Reference to the Thought and Influence of Pierre Jurieu.    Columbia University Press, 1947.   Reprinted by Octagon Books, 1971.
  • Ducommun, Marie-Jeanna & Quadroni, Dominique.    LeRefugee Protestant Dans Le Pays De Vaud: Aspects d’une Migration.    L’Association Pour L’Historie Du Refugee Huguenot, 1991.
  • Edict of Nantes: Five Essays, and A New Translation.    Edited by Richard L. Goodbar.   The National Huguenot Society, 1998.
  • Gannon, Peter Steven.    Huguenot Refugees In The Settling of Colonial America.    New York: The Huguenot Society of America, 1985.
  • Grant, A. J.    The Huguenots.    London: Thornton Butterworth, 1934.   Reprinted by Archon Books, 1969.
  • Gwynn, Robin D.    Huguenot Heritage, The History and Contributions of the Huguenots in Britain.    2nd Revised Edition with enlarged plate section.   Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.   ISBN 1902210344.
  • Hanlon, Gregory.    Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine.    University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945.
  • Holt, Mack P.    The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629.    Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Huguenots in Britain and their French Background, 1550-1800.    Edited by Irene Scouloudi.   Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1987.
  • Huguenot Refugees in the Settling of Colonial America.    Edited by Peter Steven Gannon.   New York: The Huguenot Society of America, 1985.
  • The Huguenot Wars.    Compiled and edited by Julien Coudy.   Translated by Julie Kernan.   Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1969.
  • Kingdon, Robert M.    Myths About The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacres, 1572-1576.    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988
  • Knecht, R. J.    Renaissance Warrior and Patron, the Reign of Francis I.    Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Knecht, R. J.    The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France.    London: Fontana Press (Harper Collins), 1996.
  • Ladurie, Emmanuel LeRoy.    The Peasants of Languedoc.    Translated from the French by John Day.   Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1976.
  • Lavender, Abraham D.    French Huguenots From Mediterranean Catholics to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.    Peter Lang, 1989.
  • Leonard, Emile G.    Le Protestant Francais.    Press Universitaires De France, 1955.
  • Mahoney, Irene.    Madame Catherine.    New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1975.
  • Marvick, Elizabeth Wirth.    Louis XIII: The Making of a King.    New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
  • Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora.    Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks, editors.    Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
  • Mentzer, Raymond A. Jr.    Blood & Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity Among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility.    Purdue University Press, 1994.
  • Prince Michael of Greece.    Louis XIV, The Other Side of the Sun.    Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan.   New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1983.
  • Museum of London and the Huguenot Society of London.    The Quiet Conquest, The Huguenots, 1685-1985.    London: Museum of London, 1985.
  • Roche, O. I. A.    The Days of the Upright: A History of the Huguenots.    New York: 1965.
  • Rothrock, George A.    The Huguenots: A Biography of a Minority.    Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1979.
  • Scouloudi, Irene.    Huguenots in Britain and their French Background 1550-1800.    Contributions to the Historical Conference of the Huguenot Society of London September 1985.    MacMillian Press, 1987.
  • Sowa, Helen Chastain.    Louise Moillon: Seventeenth Century Still-Life Artist, An Illustrated Biography.    Chicago: Chateau Publishing, Inc., 1998.
  • Stephan, Raoul.    L’Epopee Huguenote.    Paris: La Colombe, 1945.
  • Thompson, Bard.    Humanists and Reformers, A History of the Renaissance and Reformation.    Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996.
  • Utt, Walter C.    Home to Our Valleys! The True Story of the Incredible Glorious Return of the Waldenses to Their Native Land.    Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1977.
  • Weiss, M. Charles.    History of the French Protestant Refugees from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to Our Own Days.    Translated by Henry William Herbert.   New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854.
  • Whitehead, A. W.    Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France.    London: Methuen & Co., 1904.
  • Zoff, Otto.    The Huguenots: Fighters for God and Human Freedom.    New York: 1942.