London dealer celebrates silver expertise of Huguenots

When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685 (which had given religious freedom to French protestants), a flood of Huguenot refugees travelled across Europe to places where they could practise their religion in safety.

Many headed to England, hundreds of them skilled in silversmithing and goldsmithing. The Huguenot …

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