Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Hubert

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2915635Protestant Exiles from France — Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - HubertDavid Carnegie Andrew Agnew

Hubert.

Among singularities of refugee experience, the refugee life of Monsieur Hubert and his daughter should be mentioned. This gentleman, a near relation of the noble family of Roumieu, was a large proprietor in the French colonies, and had in his earlier days suffered losses at the hands of English ships-of-war and privateers, who had seized on vessels conveying his cargoes to France. He was also a devoted subject of France. The consequence was that, though as a Huguenot he found in England a refuge for life, an eternal antipathy overpowered all his gratitude. He would not lend money to an Englishman or invest his capital in the English funds. Fortunately the capital which he had secured, though only a part of his rightful fortune, was very large. He went on to the last day of his life spending his capital, the residue of which, along with his antipathies, he bequeathed to Marie Hubert, his only child. At her death only a few hundred pounds remained; it is said that she was nearly a hundred years old.