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Ruymbeke (American civilization, U. of Paris VIII-Vencennes-Saint-Denis) describes the gradual marginalization of the Calvinist Huguenots in France from the 1660s to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685; the transatlantic migration of some 500 of them to South Carolina; and their eventual integration into the religious, political, and socio-economic fabric of the Restoration propriety colony. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)