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Carolyn Lougee Chappell

Stanford University
Department of History

Carolyn Lougee Chappell is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History and the Martin Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. A specialist in early modern Europe, she writes on the history of women and families, religious history, demographic history, and the history of eduction.  

Project Summary

Lougee Chappell is currently working on a book titled Beyond Berneré: A Huguenot Family Faces the Revocation. This history of one French Protestant family over the course of seven generations, from their ancestral estates in Southwest France to their new homes in Holland, Ireland, and Prussia, calls into question the standard picture of the Huguenot dispersion as a type of migration distinct-because of the migrants' religious motivations-from later mass population movements. The experience of the Robillard de Champagné reveals a multiplicity of factors-personal and social, religious and material- that, in shifting combinations, incited some, but not all, among the Protestant subjects of Louis XIV to leave his realm.