Name: Huguenot Refugees
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-11-25
Rating: 6
Cast: Anja Antonowicz, Björn von der Wellen, Isabelle Barth, Ingo Abel, Nils Brunkhorst

Episodes

1. A Leap into the Unknown

2019-11-25 | 47m

French King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a document that had protected the rights of French protestants for almost one hundred years. The decision prompted a mass exodus of French Protestants with many going to Prussia.

2. Unknown Lands

2019-12-02 | 48m

French protestants were forced to flee France as dragoons were given free reign to rape, assault and terrify their communities. Among them, the Loyal family, poor cloth-makers desperate for mercy, safe passage, and a new place to call home.