Abstract
Two centuries of religious war and political conflicts destabilised French society and caused a diaspora of Protestant Huguenots. From 1650 to 1700, about 35 000 Huguenots settled in the Dutch Republic or 'la grande arche des refugies' (the great arc for refugees), as Pierre Bayle described the Netherlands. But not all the Huguenots who first landed in Holland chose to stay there, and some families had the courage to begin a new lives as colonists in barren and uncultivated Dutch colonies in America and Africa.
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