Excerpt from Olde Ulster, Vol. 6: An Historical and Genealogical Magazine; February, 1910 The terrible massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572 was followed by the flight from France of thous ands and tens of thousands of French Protestants. These Frenchmen, holding the Reformed faith, were followers of one of the greatest intellects that France ever produced, John Calvin. And when the great French reformer had been driven from that country he had proceeded by a circuitous route to the Palatinate, whence he went to Geneva. Now these refugees, for ever to be known as Huguenots, sought the same refuge as their great leader. First of all they went to the Palatinate to escape the storm. Many proceeded from this refuge to that of the Netherlands. But those who afterwards came, or their descendants, to find their final land of rest in Ulster county were those who were sheltered in the Palatinate of the Rhine. Their attachment to the land of their rest is seen in the name they bestowed upon their American home when they called it after the Palatinate, New Paltz, giving it the German rendering of the name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.