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Most of the French settlers in New France were Roman Catholics. The French Protestants (the Huguenots) were barred from emigrating to New France.
Louis XIV was Catholic, and he wanted all Protestants to convert.
Protestants in France were not allowed to hold positions under the Crown or teach at universities. They could not go to any French colonies. (From 1598 to 1655, some of these restrictions were suspended.) The French only took the Roman Catholic religion to New France because it was the only one tolerated in France.
Many were Calvinists or Hugenots. __ Although French Protestants (Hugenots or Calvinists) settled in New France, the predominate faith was Catholic.
Protestant Huguenots.
The Huguenots (Protestants) were not allowed by the French King to establish themselves in the colonies. You had to be Catholic.
The New American Bible is a protetant publication.
the "huguenots" were the French protestants ; many of them choose to leave France and went away to the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, or the USA. The noun Forest Hill comes from instance from the huguenot Jesse de Forest who left northern France and settled in New York.
Protestants moved to the New World because they were tired of being persecuted and wanted the religious freedom to worship.
The Protestants where very unhappy with the monasteries, they stayed protestants through out the fight of the monasteries even when the new Catholic queen came!
Soldiers and Carpenters were the two most common occupations in New France. But there were more but they werent as common as those two.
From Paris France to New York, New York (3159 nautical miles).