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Bryan A. Banks, "Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment" (McGill-Queen's, 2024)
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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to New Books Network. Today I feel very happy to invite Dr. Brian Banks to join us to introduce his research about the Huguenot people and their importance, especially refugees in European intellectual history, and especially in his newest book, Right to Return. So as the first thing I always do in my podcast, I want to invite Dr. Benth to introduce himself to us.
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Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to talk more about this book that I poured about 12 years of my life into. I'm a historian of early modern Europe up to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. By training, I entered graduate school very much interested in the French Revolution and its origins and wanted to explore something related to religion. And so I pursued graduate programs that would allow me to think more deeply about those topics. And so this book is an extension really of my master's thesis into my doctorate that I continued on now as an associate professor of history here at Columbus State University. I'm also the interim dean of libraries in the graduate school here at my institution, like. Like the New Books in History Network. I've also been really interested in digital media and have dabbled around with academic blogging. In 2015, I became the co founder and executive editor of ageofrevolutions.com which is an extension of My interests in early modern Atlantic world history, European history, the French Revolution, so on and so forth. And then I think the thing that the readers of my book will find out very quickly is that I'm also a student of the transnational turn of the last couple of decades. I've always been very interested in how peoples and ideas have moved across borders. And so the word frontiers in the title of my book, on the frontiers of the French Enlightenment is a, is a very intentional term to show that to people.
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Thanks so much for your detailed introduction of yourself, your research and your solidist in academia. So for next question, I'm wondering what, as you mentioned, you studied projects since you were like a master's student when you were doing your master's thesis. So I'm wondering why and how you take interest in this specific research subject of who can know refugees in European lecture history.
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Yeah, so I, I, I always make the joke with students that it was preordained and also seemingly random. I, I grew up in the American south where religion was and is a defining feature of most people's day to day existences. When I was an undergrad, I took religious studies courses and, and became fascinated in the ways people's faith manifests and their economic activities and their family relations and so on and so forth. And I had a professor who taught the history of the French Revolution. And I just became absolutely fascinated with this time and this historical subject. And because I was also interested in religion, I became quite struck by the underdeveloped nature of religious histories of the French Revolution. And it's fairly obvious why that is. I think to anybody who has read more than a couple books on the French Revolution, the French Revolution was the bastion of the Marxist historiography for such a long time. And generally Marxist historians don't tend to focus on religion because religion is superstructure. It's just an emanation of those economic modalities. Right. And so they tend to get sidelined. And what books on religion existed tended to focus on little communities or the constitutional church or the deist and atheist, you know, things that came out of the French Revolution too, like the Festival of the Supreme Being and the De Christianization movement, the war in the Fonde. There are all kinds of those subjects that are always important to the story of the development of the French Revolution, but didn't get treated in the ways that I thought they might be treated. And so when I was applying for my master's programs, I had every intention of going on to study French Judaism during the French Revolution. And I was in Paris, my last semester of my undergrad as an exchange student and I had the chance to meet who would become my master's thesis advisor, Ralph Blaufarb, in this quaint little cafe just off the Louvre. And I told him my aspirations of studying French Jewish people during the Revolution, seeing how they navigated and even shaped their own revolutionary experiences. And in kind of classic undergrad to professor fashion, he looked at me and he said, well, have you read Ronald Schechter's book Obstinate Hebrews, which is about representations of Jewish people during the Enlightenment and the French Revolution? And of course I took his suggestion, read the book and thought, there's no way that I can write a better book than this. It had all of the creative historical methodologies that I had been introduced to during my undergraduate years. It had parts of the story that show Jewish people with incredible agency over their day to day lives during, during such a tumultuous time as the French 18th century and the Revolution. And so when I went to grad school and I was working with Dr. Blaufarb, we had another meeting in which I said, I don't think I can write something better than this. And his response was, not too many people have actually written on the Huguenot community during the time of the French Revolution. And so I went back to the library and started looking for books on such subjects and discovered that only really 2 existed in English and there were several in French. But the two in English tended to paint the French Protestant community as benefactors of Enlightenment philosophers, pro religious toleration arguments, as if, you know, they, they were the real change makers and the Protestants just were waiting for somebody to advocate for them. And so I stayed there and worked on my master's thesis and I ended up staying at Florida State University for my doctorate as well. I changed advisors. I started working with Dr. Darren McMahon, who is an intellectual historian of the 18th century. And he really challenged me to think about the ways that Huguenots would have defined themselves amidst all of these powerful Enlightenment arguments, the call to reason, and these people who just a generation earlier were, you know, typecasted as fanatics, you know, hell bent on destroying the Catholic Church and everything the old regime, French monarchy stood for. I ended up writing a dissertation which is like many people's dissertations. It's, it was done, it was not perfect, it was long, it meandered, it covered not just Huguenots, but French perceptions of Presbyterians and Anabaptist and Remonstrant Remonstrance and any version of Protestant I could find French people talking about, I wrote about to imagine a kind of lexicon of Protestantism that allowed the French philosophers to challenge the status quo and argue for pro toleration arguments. And I graduated in, in December of 2014 with a finished, not perfect, but finished dissertation. And it took me a decade to transform that dissertation into the book that now appears on bookshelves. And that was largely because I had written a very theoretical dissertation. And it was a dissertation I was convinced not too many people would actually read or would not have the kind of impact that spending so much of my life on, I wanted to have. And so I carved up the dissertation into several journal articles to publish. As I was going through the tender and promotion process, I needed things to publish. So I published an article on Quakers during the French Revolution. And in the French imaginary, I started to play around with different models of imagining Protestant agency during the French Revolution in that article. And the second article really became the basis for one of the chapters in the book on Rabo Saint and his sentimental turn, as I call it in the book, too, right, his pro toleration arguments that focused on the sentimentality, the emphasis on Huguenot suffering, both corporeal, their bodies as well as their families, and their cultural suffering too. And it was after I published that article, I got several emails from scholars in the field I greatly respect that encouraged me to keep pursuing that line of thinking. And so over the following years I moved to a different institution. I came here to Columbus State University. I, in between my teaching, found time to keep revising and rewriting. Much of this book does not look like my dissertation at all. Then I worked through the process of submitting book proposals and eventually had it published with McGill Queen's University Press, which has both a French history series as well as a refugee Enforced Migration studies series, which I found very attractive because the main argument of my book is that Huguenots invented the idea of a refugee collective, a group of people we can call refugees who have been oppressed by a state who focus on their suffering as a way to politicize their, their own agendas and to advocate to, to return to their ancestral lands. And one of the fascinating things I discovered before I even finished my doctorate was that during the French Revolution, the revolutionaries included French Protestants as citizens after 1791, regardless of where they were born. Which meant that if you were of Huguenot ancestry and you lived in the Netherlands or South Carolina or South Africa, you could return to France and claim ancestry. But Moreover, you could also apply to have ancestral lands returned to you as a form of reparations. I was writing all of this as you know, George Floyd was occurring as talk about reparations for slavery became really important in the United States. As you know, Latin American refugees were pushing at the southern border of the United States as Syrians were fleeing their homelands, as Sudanese people were fleeing their homelands. And it just felt like I had a really great example of one of the first groups to claim that mantle of refugeedom, which is a fairly popular phrase in the field of refugees and forced migration studies, to evidence larger systems and tactics taken by refugees to advocate for themselves, which is something that we don't recognize all that often.
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Yes. So much for your answer, I think. First thing I want to say I very appreciate you tell us this long extended journey from your idea, very early idea when you a young scholar, I mean you are a math student and how it's finally become this fantastic book. So thanks so much for you. I even suggest you may consider buying article about this story. Not just about the journey, not just about book, but the journey underlying behind the book. It's very interesting. So thanks so much. So now let's turn to your book. So for the first question, also is about your first chapter of your book. I'm wondering about the demographic realities of Huguenot diaspora and the church of desert within France as they related to the prignant Catholic argument against religious toleration.
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Sure. So I'll kind of preface my response by informing the listeners about two things here. The first one is that not a whole lot of people know about the Huguenot history. The Huguenots were embroiled in the French wars of religion. And the first migration out of France occurred at the end of the 16th century. And Huguenots were increasingly forced from their homelands over the course of the 17th century. And the piece de resistance was in 1685 when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes and led to the forcible expulsion of over 200,000 Huguenots out into the wider diaspora. I phrase all of that very intentionally, very specifically, because the first iterations, the first waves of Huguenots during the wars of religions, established pathways for them. They tended to flee to the Swiss cantons to the southeast, or to the Netherlands to the north, onto England and Ireland, where many of them stayed. Or after going to those places, they went further afield, to Germany, to what becomes the United States a hundred years later, South Africa. They're in the first steps of the penal colonies To Australia. They're in French Pondicherry. They really go everywhere. The joke I always make to students and colleagues is that Huguenots are kind of like glitter. Once you have a bunch of glitter in your hand, it will be everywhere, all over the place, in almost an inexplicable fashion. Huguenots, they hold on to that ancestry and they go very far afield. A couple hundred years later, really in the 19th and the 20th century, they will found Huguenot societies in almost all of these places. And a lot of those people become dilettant historians of their own communities. And they amass a lot of the records that I end up using for this book and for other projects too. So that's the basic story, right? They're forcibly expelled into the diaspora in 1685, and then during the French Revolution, they are invited back. Okay, so my first chapter is I want to understand who these people were that will end up advocating for themselves, what their communities looked like. And I drew inspiration from Ronald Schechter's Obstinate Hebrews book for the structure of this book too. His first chapter is about the demographic realities of the Jewish population. Because you can't deal with representations of Jewish people, both positive and negative, without understanding the historical reality of these peoples. And the same thing goes for the Huguenots. They're going like. French Catholics will make arguments about Huguenots being, you know, essentially merciless capitalists. They don't use that language, but they. They call them greedy and they take over markets and all of this stuff. They will accuse them of being an anarchical or republicans in a world that very much values absolutist monarchy. And you can't make heads or tails of those representations unless you know the people that they're referring to. What I discovered as I was writing this chapter, which in my mind originally was just a. I need to set the stage for the rest of the book, was that I actually wanted to make an argument in that chapter too. And so the argument that I use, I call it the self fulfilling prophecies of the Huguenot Diaspora. Essentially it's self fulfilling prophecy is the phrase that I really lean on here. Because a lot of the arguments that anti Huguenots and pro Huguenot people are making during this time period, they have a tinge of reality to them, right? As all of the best representations, if they're going to be convincing to somebody who knows nothing, they have to align with certain stereotypes in one fashion or another. And so as I'm talking about Huguenot's being Republican. Right. This. This argument that Catholics made, it's worthwhile to note that there were Huguenot Republicans in the Swiss cantons and in the Netherlands. Pierre Giraud regularly talks about the benefits of a republican form of governance. You know, that argument or those notions get used against him, but he does make those arguments. Same goes for the supposed capitalist tendencies of the Huguenot population. Most jobs were closed off to French Protestants during this time period. They could not run for public office. They could not hold a seat in, like, they couldn't be a judge, they couldn't be a lawyer. Their churches were severely repressed. And so it was difficult to make a living as a pastor. And so really, the only jobs that they could get access to were merchant jobs. And so they tended to take on those. What I found was really fascinating about all of this is that in the 20th century, really the late 19th century, but into the 20th century, Max Weber, the great German sociologist, writes an entire book about the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, where he argues that there are cultural reasons why aesthetic Protestants, like Calvinists, which are French Huguenots, are Calvinists, right. Or Quakers tend to be better capitalists. They don't take their wealth and dump it into a church. They. They spend it on their businesses. And if their businesses flourish, they read that as a sign that they're a member of the elect, that God is looking favorably on them. And so there are all these kinds of arguments that are really popular in religious studies that have precedence way back in the late 17th and the 18th century. And there are arguments that emerged around this debate about whether the French should tolerate Calvinists or not, whether or not they should invite French Hugals back to the country or not. And that was the thing that I read Ron Schechter's book Obstinate Hebrews multiple times while I was in graduate school. Right. It was one of these books that informed my. My identity as a historian. The methodologies I found most attractive. And that chapter in his book was the one that I always had the most problems with because he very much took a demographic look. He set the stage. There are some arguments in there, but nothing that was nothing that felt powerful enough to start a book off with.
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With.
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And so that was a challenge for me. And part of the reason it took me so long to revise my dissertation into this book is because I struggled with that first chapter a lot. I wanted to make sure that it had a powerful argument, could stand alone, as well as provide the basis for the subsequent chapters.
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So much for your answer for my first question. Now let's turn to the second chapter. So for the second chapter, my question is that I'm wondering about the controversial writing of Pierre Giroux, the Huguenot theologians known for his millionaire reason and support of English Revolution of 1688.
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He was a fickle character for me. Giraud and his counterpart, who I think we'll probably talk about him in just a minute, Pierre Bale are very much kind of intertwined in that revocation time period. They both had taught at the same school, a Protestant academy in France in the Sedan. When Louis XIV closed that school, both of them were put on the hot seat and were forced to flee the country. Their families were persecuted and they both made their way up to the Netherlands where they both ended up teaching at another school. Pierre Giraud was a theologian professor and Pierre Giraud was, or sorry, Pierre Bale was a philosopher. And they both had lived through a fairly similar experience, right? That of forced migration from their country, persecution of their families. They had experienced this pretty considerably. Now the, the interesting thing about this is that in Enlightenment studies we think about Voltaire and Diderot and the great French Enlightenment philosophers. Pierre BAAL is often imagined as one of the first philosophers because he, he breaks with religious tradition because he argues for a kind of scientific method for society to challenge religious preconceptions. In a lot of ways he makes sense as an ancestor to the mainstream Enlightenment philosophers. But in that same field of Enlightenment studies, there's also this counter movement of religious historians that are arguing that it wasn't just these would be secular philosophers that that really made the strongest arguments, but everybody was engaged in some kind of Enlightenment thought to the point that, you know, David Sorkin wrote an entire book called the Religious Enlightenment, which was about religious thinkers applying reason to their worlds. Right. And so as I was writing this book, I wanted to make sure that I was really emphasizing that across the board Huguenots were engaging in more and more rational lines of argumentation to, to advocate for themselves. Pierre Giraud is maybe not the best case of this, but he's certainly one of the most powerful ones. And as most of my book depends on printed text, Giraud published copiously over the course of his life. He published a lot. He writes his pastoral letters and sends them back into France and talks about how that even though people are, are the chosen people, much like the Jews were in the book of Exodus, that's the word refugee is itself a callback to the ancient Israelites of the Old Testament. The church of the desert is the phrase that the French Huguenots use that remain in France. And the word desert, it's desert. Desert is also a reference to the time that the ancient Israelites spent wandering the desert as the chosen people, people. Jerome wants these individuals, these refugees, to remain Huguenots, to remain Calvinists, to have their faith be sustained through the persecutions. And so he regularly imagines them, depicts them as the chosen people. And in his millenarianism he tries to use the Bible to, to calculate the end of times, the coming of Jesus Christ, were Huguenots were will achieve salvation and be rewarded for their, their perseverance in the face of persecution. He, he thinks it's going to happen around the English Revolution of 1688, which sees a Catholic king toppled by a Protestant one, a Protestant one, William of Orange, right, who comes from the Netherlands, where all of these Huguenots have settled. And that's really important for him. And throughout many of his texts he refers to Huguenots as refugees awaiting their return to France. Because just as the Catholic king in England was toppled, James, so too will the Bourbon monarchy in France be toppled by some great Protestant conqueror. And then Jesus will come and the end of days will happen and so on and so forth across his writings, which are very powerful, which do not smell of Enlightenment thought. He does make some pretty rational arguments for toleration for Huguenots. Being a more tolerant people than Catholics, he does it in a republican fashion. And he does it in other ways too that reinforce that self fulfilling prophecy that comes in the decades that follow him, especially in the writings of Pierre baal.
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Thanks so much for your answer for my second question. Now let's turn to the third question today. For the third question I'm wondering about how the philosopher Pierre Bayer imagined a refuge colored by their political place in early modern Europe, one that was free from religion or at least made religion a private matter.
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Yeah, BAAL is another one of these fantastic individuals who you don't know what his true religious leanings are. He was born into a Catholic family, he converts to Catholicism, he converts back to Calvinism. One historian says he kind of has an emotional heart and escapes categorization by conventional religious monikers or identities. Others say he's an atheist, others say he's a pantheist. He really is kind of all across the board. And what rings true through all of this is that he doesn't want to persecute people for their individual beliefs. He wants to find a way for a multi ethnic, a multi religious community to be able to exist in harmony with one another. And he develops a lot of his arguments in response to Pierre Giraud. In many cases, he is writing explicitly against him. And the most important pamphlet for me is actually one that was published anonymously, but is widely known to have been penned by Pierre Berrell as his Vieille aux refugees. His advice to the refugees. He uses that word again. And in his av, he tells the Huguenot population that if they follow somebody like Pierre Giraud, a millenarian, somebody who imagines them to be a chosen people, there is no way they are going to be welcomed back into France. That such exceptionalism will just keep pushing them to the periphery and will never convince a Bourbon monarch, a Catholic monarch, to bring them back. And he does this in, in a lot of different ways. He does it in a religious fashion. He says, if you want toleration in France, you have to be tolerant yourselves. He says, if you want to be welcomed back into a French monarchical state, a royalist state, you cannot celebrate your republicanism in the same breadth. He will say, well, Protestants are probably actually better for a French monarchy because they aren't beholden to the papacy. They're not beholden to a foreign spiritual power. They will just support one king as long as that king supports their right to, to their individual beliefs. And it's that argument that then leads to this kind of individual faith, this freedom of belief that is private rather than public. Jurgen Habermas is the historian and theorist who loves to talk about public spheres and private spheres. And then later in his life, he turned towards religion and complicated some of his earlier arguments, but largely sticks to it. And as I was reading Bale and having read Habermas for my comprehensive exams and the like. I really started to think about the ways in which Bale was framing his argument and his characterization of French Protestant and peoples as peoples who at their core have a private faith. Right. Your individual communion with God as a, as a Protestant is a private expression of your faith as opposed to a Catholic one which is very much dependent upon a community and a set, you know, extensive set of rites and rituals that guide your day to day and yearly religious example existence. This is important and not to be teleological, not to let something that happens later inform your interpretation of something that happens earlier. But when the French Revolution issues its Declaration of Rights as man and Citizen and subsequent constitutions, it includes the freedom of religion not in its own clause about religious practice, but in the clause about religious opinion. Right? Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, even in religion is the phrase of the French Declaration of Rights of man and Citizen provided it does not disturb the safety and peace of everyday society. It's not a direct quote, but that's the spirit of the tenth article of the Declaration. And I thought that was really interesting because a hundred years earlier there was a Protestant that was essentially making that same argument that people should have the ability to believe what they want to believe as long as it doesn't impede upon other people's civil or civic liberties. And then the Revolution basically enshrines that. And the revolutionaries loved bail. They hated Juro. When they debated giving French Protestant citizenship on Christmas Eve of 1789, they even mentioned both of these individuals by name. And the spirit of the whole conversation was well, if we can get a bunch of Bales back, we'll be in good shape. If we get some Giraus back, well then that's going to pull us back into the realm of the wars of religion. And that is not where we want to be.
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Thanks so much for your answer. So now finally let's turn to the last question. It's about chapter four and chapter five book. I'm wondering for this question, I'm wondering about emergence of refugee identity increasing predicted ominous sentimentalism and an embassy that they suffering by sparking others.
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Yeah. Chapters four and five deal with two other canonical figures in the Huguenot diaspora. Powerful writers and leaders of the Church of the Desert, two individuals who regularly crisscross the border between Switzerland and France as well. The first one is about Antoine Corp. Antoine Corbe is is famous for convening the the Synod of the desert in 1715 and bringing back the Calvinist church after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in a secretive fashion. Right. The synod is. Is held in a barn, and most of the church meetings are held in caves or barns or individuals homes, oftentimes in the dead of night to avoid the dragon aids the the French police. Essentially. He really is a kind of formative leader and he writes a number of books and short tracts about toleration of French Protestants. And what you notice when you're reading his works is that he starts to move away from the word refugee. And this was something BAAL had pointed to. Giraud loved the word refugee because it celebrated the exceptional, almost biblical character of the Huguenot chosen people. Bale didn't like the term because of that exceptionalism. Right. And so he encouraged them not to talk about themselves as refugees, but as Frenchmen abroad. And Antoine Cort largely sticks with that same kind of sentiment. So instead he talks about French Protestants as essentially being patriots. And this is, you know, the 18th century and the Enlightenment is a time period where early nationalistic thought and identity was coming into existence. And we see a French Protestant who we could say was on the periphery of those arguments, making some of the most powerful cases for French inclusion of Protestant peoples. Similarly, Rab St. Paul Rabault was his father. Paul Rabault was, if you imagine like a timeline of great French Protestant leaders during this time period, Antoine Cord, when he starts to fade away, Paul Ribaut becomes really popular and really important. And then his son Rebassantienne, that's his deser name, steps to the fore too. Reba Saint doesn't want to write tracts like Antoine Cork does to support French Protestants, French humunos during this time period. But rather he wants to write sentimental literature. And he publishes this book called the Old Seven Knoll that goes through so many iterations with just the weirdest edits between them. In one version, there's a whole chapter about a love affair that then disappears in the next one. But it's all essentially a narrative about tolerating Hugues and welcoming them back into French society. And he does it heavy with metaphor. There are passages where he describes Huguenot bodies, people being pulled down to the ground and torn apart by dogs and all these things. And he focuses on the body almost as a metaphor for the body politic, for the French state. Right, the French society. If we can do this to the French Huguenot people, then imagine what that's doing to the French society, societal order, or the French government, the French state. And that book is really popular. It's in the vein of some of Rousseau's writings. It's definitely inspired by Jean Jacques Rousseau. And this just elevates Rabau Saint Etienne up even more to the point that when the Estates General is called and the national assembly forms at the beginning of the French Revolution, Reba Saint is a key figure. If you look at Jacques Louis David's depiction of the Tennis Court Oath, a really famous engraving, one of the three figures in the center is Rabau Saint and he is shaking hands with a Catholic in front of Abbe Siez, the guy who wrote the famous what is the Third Estate tract. And so one of the most powerful images of the French Revolution has a Protestant right at its center, right at its core. In both of these chapters, I argue that they're moving away from the word refugee and towards a French national definition that includes not just Catholics, but Protestants as well. And those arguments were so powerful that in 1789 the French Protestant population is granted citizenship. In 1791 we get these, these efforts at reparations. And when Napoleon comes to power and has to delegate with the papacy, he makes this really powerful argument in which he says the French state, the French social order, is like a person with two legs. One leg is Catholic and one leg is Protestant. And I always thought that was really funny because less than 10% of the population in France are Protestants and yet they are an equal leg on the line on the same kind of scale as as Catholics are. And so well through the 19th century you will see many of these same arguments come to the fore again. Huguenot society in France first emerges the 1850s and they're rehearsing many of these same arguments because many of them are still very much afraid that they will be back cast into the diaspora. That memory is very real for them.
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Thanks so much for your answer to all my questions. For all those questions, I prepare for your book talk today. So at the end of our episode now I want to be readily talk to my audience listeners if you take any interest in like European history, especially early modern European history and or you take a strong interest in a specific group for Huguenot people. I personally recommend consider buy a copy of this book fantastic book. Please take notes of title or book write to return. So thanks so much for listening to our public answer today. Have a good time. It.