1733-5760 Jews and Other Religious Confessions as Seen in the French Language Periodicals Published by the Huguenots in the United Provinces  (1680-1715) Green Michaël author University of Lodz Correspondence to: Michaël Green michael.green@filhist.uni.lodz.pl 15 03 2018 Volume 15 2017 25 46 Copyright © 2018 2018 <div id="cke_pastebin" style="text-align: left;">Huguenots and Jews were both minorities in the United Provinces of the Netherlands. When the majority of the Huguenots arrived to the country, Jews had already resided there and had become part of Dutch society. The French newcomers, contrary to the Dutch, had little contact with the Jews and it was probably their first encounter with them. The majority of the Huguenots arrived there after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Among the Huguenot refugees we find a certain number of intellectuals who established gazettes and journals. 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