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Show THE EXODUS of these in-dependent in-dependent Frenchmen (Huguenots) brought many to America. The silk and wool industry in-dustry in France, at Lyons and Tours, never recovered after their migration. Louis and his lavish court survived until 1710. Before that century was over, such abuses and others led to revolution. Ironically, a descendant, Louis XVI, was to provide much aid to the American colonies col-onies in their fight against England Eng-land a century later (France was at war with England). He was the monarch overtaken by the trend toward democracy and the people rose in revolution revolu-tion during hs reign and beheaded be-headed Louis XVI and many others, in 1793. |