Huguenots

A point of reference for the descendants

From the 1960s onwards, the descendants of the emigrant families Saffin, Dutilh, Darné and Cobet came to meet him, from Vienna, London, Frankfurt, Mauritius, Rotterdam or Philadelphia. He received them in his houses at La Pause, then at Cambes, and kept up a regular correspondence with them. [A]

The families From Clairac to the world

The 1978 gathering

In 1978, he organised in Clairac a gathering of several dozen descendants of emigrants. [A]

A meeting in 2017

In July 2017, 70 members of the Dutilh family, from Holland, England, Switzerland, Spain and Turkey, gathered in Clairac. [B]

The Dutilh family

The lists of refugees

His work includes an unpublished compilation, French Protestants (Huguenots) in Clairac, 1600s-1700s: Lists of refugees from Clairac and the surrounding Lot-et-Garonne area of France. On 12 November 2019, the Huguenot Library (University College London) acknowledged receipt of a copy, donated by his niece Florence Lung through Glenys Bolland. [C]

Claude Martin also typed a list of the “Emigrés de CLAIRAC en Agenois Province de Guyenne”, with each person’s destination: it is reproduced and transcribed in the archives.

The emigrants of Clairac His method His publications

These lists are today the starting point of the research lab’s work: families split in two by exile, links between refugee families, lineages followed into modern times.

Those who stayed The networks of departure The lineages

The context

Clairac, whose motto is “Ville sans roy, soldats sans peur” (Town without king, soldiers without fear), was besieged by Louis XIII in 1621; its Protestant temple was demolished in 1685 or 1686. [B]

Protestantism in Clairac