Some of the exiles offered their swords to William of Orange, and distinguished themselves by the fury with which they fought against their persecutor.

Others avenged themselves with weapons still more formidable, and, by means of the presses of Holland, England, and Germany, inflamed, during thirty years, the public mind of Europe against the French government.

A more peaceful class erected silk manufactories in the eastern suburb of London.

One detachment of emigrants taught the Saxons to make the stuffs and hats of which France had hitherto enjoyed a monopoly.

Another planted the first vines in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope.