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Supplied by the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland. The manuscript of Jean Des Champs’s Memoires Secrets was preserved by his English descendants, the Chamier family, who deposited it, with his other papers, in the Department of Manuscripts of the University of Nottingham Library in 1970. Some years later, its location was established for Dr Uta Janssens-Knorsch of the University of Nijmegen by the then General Editor and Hon Secretary of the Huguenot Society, Miss Irene Scouloudi. Her edition of the manuscript of the Memoires Secrets, with biographical introduction , notes and index appeared in 1990 – co-published with APA Holland University Press. Jean des Champs was born in 1707 in the province of Mecklenburg, Prussia, the third son of Jacques des Champs, a Huguenot minister who left his native land after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to seek a new life in one of the protestant states of Northern Europe. Jean des Champs, journalist, Minister and ‘man of feeling’ enrolled at the protestant Academy in Geneva in 1723, and continued his studies in Berlin, where he was a member of the French protestant colony which had become established there. He later moved to Holland and from there to England. His memoirs attest to the cosmopolitan life he led as a member of one of the richer refugee families, as he moved from one place to another, drawing on his contacts in each of the countries of the Huguenot refuge. By Uta Janssens-Knorsch. First published 1990.
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