History and lore
Paulus was born at Roucy, in Champagne, in 1630, into a Huguenot (French Protestant) family, in the years when the crown was chipping away at the freedoms granted by the Edict of Nantes. His elder brother Gideon became a refugee, going first to Holland and then to America.
Read the full article: The Huguenots: Why Our Family Left France