User blog comment:Nkbeeching/The Surprise of Meaux/@comment-4612798-20140324161127

Don't know enough about early modern French history to comment sorry.

However I do know that emigrating Huguenots (quite major numbers, they formed something like the biggest single migration up to that point) made a significant impact on the English economy in subsequent centuries and made a real impact on the religious situation in Ireland too. If they had remained in France, or even come to power, then English and Irish history would be changed.