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* Juliens were Huguenots.
Descendants of Father Julien
1. FATHER1 JULIEN died Abt. 1665.
Notes for FATHER JULIEN:
Hennepin was an authority on New France: he had earlier written a description of Louisiana, and attempted to push the French court into greater Catholic missionary activity in the region. Two factors prompted Hennepin to make his offer. The first was the realization that William was very interested in the area. The second was that he knew the prince had on hand a large number of unemployed Huguenots, many of whom had been cooling their heels in Ireland for more than five years. William might also reasonably expect the assistance of South Carolinan Huguenots, who had been frustrated in their own attempts at expansion in the region by the agents of the French government. The plan also fed on fears among the aspiring French Catholic settlers and administrators of the nascent Louisiana colony of "the closeness of the English, promoters of all sorts of sects, Protestant as well as others. Also the Dutch, who, in addition, are ever on the look-out to extend their trade by all sorts of ways and under all sorts of pretexts. William raised seven hundred Huguenots to attempt the desperate mission to secure the Mississippi Valley. This was the last serious plan William III ever made for the employment of his Huguenot soldiers, but the plan for a Huguenot invasion of the Mississippi Valley never came to fruition. Enough was known of the plan among the French to prompt a strong Catholic mission which was directed into the Mississippi Valley in May 1699. It was directed by two Bishops of Quebec. This mission was further reinforced by the strenuous efforts taken in Louisiana by its first governor, the Canadian Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. He sailed with two frigates and two smaller craft from the Breton port of Brest, on 24 October 1698, and put into Cape Francais, Louisiana, on 4 December. Under his energetic direction, the French discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River, which Le Moyne d'Iberville explored with his kinsman, Le Moyne de Bienville and representatives of the French Army and the Catholic church, including Ensign de Sauvole and Pe're Anastase. In 1700, Le Moyne d' Iberville proposed a plan to the French court "to form a barrier in face of the English from Boston to Florida, or Carolina as they call it". To this end, further missionaries were to be pushed into the Mississippi Valley "In order to get the natives on the side of the French, after converting them" as they would "otherwise be lost if once the English set foot in there before [the Catholic French]". The renewal of French interest in the Mississippi Valley, and the armed presence of Le Moyne d'Iberville, meant Hennepin's plan could not be realized. Indeed the only evidence that any moves were made regarding Huguenots in this part of the "New World" exist in stray references in the service files of some Huguenot soldier: Charles Perrault de Sailly, a veteran of William's 1688 invasion and the recipient of a pension as a reformed lieutenant during the Irish campaign (1689-91), is said to have been "one of the 500 refugees who took part in the expedition to Virginia, 1700". But even this evidence relates to a different (though closely related) plan for the "disposal of a considerable number of French and Vaudois refugees that have had ye bad fortune to be driven out of their country on account of their religion" by settling them along the James River in Virginia. These were, however, mostly civilian settlers, proving how little this scheme had in common with the aims and objectives of William's grand plan to invade the Mississippi Valley. With the failure of the Mississippi Valley plan, and mounting pressure to disband his Huguenot regiments, William III had to make a decision about their future. He allowed those Huguenot veterans, who were able bodied and unpensioned, free passage back to the Netherlands. Here they either joined family or friends and settled, moved onto other centres of Huguenot settlement like those in Brandenburg-Prussia, or continued to fight in regiments allied to William III and the Dutch Republic. Despite the continued presence of Huguenot regiments in Flanders, Savoy and Portugal in the years following 1700, the plan for the Huguenot invasion and settlement of the Mississippi Valley represents the last attempt to harness the skill, energy and militant spirit of the French refugees on a large scale. What the Huguenots lost at the time of the Peace of Ryswick was any chance to again be considered as an independent group with its own leaders, spokesmen and character, which could dictate its own policies, and which could count on the assistance of international powers to aid its cause. After 1700, the Huguenots had to abandon all pretensions to maintaining that independence of conscience and administration which had been guaranteed to them by the Edict of Nantes in 1598. Thereafter, the Huguenots fate was to be integrated into the countries to which they had fled as refugees. In London, Berlin, Dublin and Amsterdam they formed French-speaking communities distinct from the rest of the population. Over time, French stopped being spoken after a couple of generations and intermarriage with native English, German or Dutch people markedly diluted the cultural and even physical characteristics of the French communities. In all of this, Huguenot soldiers stood apart from the rest of the Huguenot community. Having survived as proud professional soldiers, as opposed to penniless civilians, the Huguenot soldiery were automatically segregated from the alms-receiving settlers of Europe's Protestant capital cities. The segregation of the soldiers from civilian life was further enhanced by the fact that many of them belonged to the petite noblesse, a class which in southern France especially had maintained a strong separation from non-noble groups. This distinction might have been insignificant were it not for the fact that so many of the descendants of the original Huguenot soldiers who accompanied William of Orange to Britain in 1688, chose military and ecclesiastical careers. These occupations perpetuated their social position in the face of poverty, obscurity and racial hostility which continued to afflict centres of Huguenot settlement at Portarlington, Dublin and London even into the nineteenth century. The continued presence of Huguenot gentlemen in both the army and the church, greatly aided their acceptance among the English and Anglo-Irish gentry and as a result many Huguenot officers married into British military families throughout the eighteenth century. By the turn of the nineteenth century, their manners, speech and appearance were indistinguishable from that of their brother officers. Only their names continued to remind them of their origins in France. The Huguenot soldiers who played such an important part in the events of the "Glorious Revolution", and who were such a prominent factor in European politics at the close of the seventeenth century, simply melted into other cultures. Thus ended one of Europe's most energetic, devout, industrious and brave peoples.
Child of FATHER JULIEN is:
| 2. | i. | RENE2 JULIEN, b. 1660, Paris, France; d. 1745, Frederick County, Winchester, Virginia. |
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