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Archives

The archives

Documents, letters, press articles, publications and photographs gathered around Claude Martin and Clairac. Each item has its record: summary, significance, related people, places and events, original source and rights — and, where they are not known, the note “to be specified”.

49 items. The collection will grow with the documents entrusted to the project; original documents remain available in their original language. Articles and publications by other publishers are presented by a record and their reference, without being reproduced.

All the references cited on the site, by category: sources and bibliography (in French).

A work by Claude Martin

The emigrants of Clairac

“Emigrés de CLAIRAC en Agenois Province de Guyenne”: the typewritten list he compiled, with each person’s surname, first name and destination. Facsimile of the three pages and transcription searchable by name and destination.

Browse the list of emigrants

His other record extracts

Frankfurt registers, deeds of the Clairac notaries, publications of the Huguenot Society of London: his other typed record extracts are described one by one, with their sources, and can be consulted in the original.

Claude Martin’s record extracts

The recorded interview

Half an hour of Claude Martin de Robert’s account, recorded in Clairac in 2017 by Laure Leblond: the Protestant history of the town and the origin of its church. The transcript is published; the recording, kept by the family, is not published for the moment.

Read the interview

Search for a name

A surname across all his record extracts at once, with the date, places, document and page.

Search for a name

What these archives have made possible

The site’s research lab has cross-checked Claude Martin’s list and records against public registers: families split in two by exile, links between refugee families, lineages followed into modern times, the share of Clairac’s Protestants who left after 1685.

Those who stayed The networks of departure The lineages The Refuge in figures

Elsewhere

His papers in other collections

  • Archives départementales de Lot-et-Garonne (departmental archives): a Claude Martin collection is reported there. To be confirmed The shelfmark will be given here as soon as it is known.
  • Huguenot Library (University College London): on 12 November 2019, it acknowledged receipt of a copy of his unpublished work French Protestants (Huguenots) in Clairac, 1600s-1700s, donated by his niece Florence Lung. See the letter
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