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SIX PORTRAIT MINIATURES BELIEVED TO DEPICT THE CHAMPAGNE REFUGEES Label to verso reads: 'Josias de Champagne and his wife Marie, nee de la rochefoucauld escaped from France in 1696 follopwing the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They were accompanied by their six children and found refuge first in England, then in Holland. The father and eldest son joined the army of the Prince of Orange, and went with the army to Ireland, where teh father died in Belfast in 1689. The eldest son, Josias, married Lady Jane forbes, youngest daughter of the Earl of Granard and their grandaughter Henrietta de Robillard de Champagne married Sir Erasmus Dixon Borroneo. Marie de Champagne joined her son in Ireland in 1722 and died there in 1730. These pictures are believed to be of the widow and five of their children.' Largest portrait 7cm L Framed and glazed as one 34cm x 30cm
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