GEORGE S. LEGARE was of old Huguenot stock. of that superb breed of honest. sturdy. middleclass Frenchmen who in south and central France resisted religions and political oppression to the death point. welcoming cessation of life rather than lame surrender of conviction in life. When Louis XIV rescinded the Edict of Nantes lie prepared for struggle in many countries an army of French immigrants. against whom France. in great crisis. struggled in diplomacy and upon the battle field in vain for very many decades. They carried to other lands arts. industry. simple living. and high thinking. and to no other country was it carried by them more than to South Carolina. The Legare family afterwards became ytypical in American national thought of southern slaveholding aristocracy. so much so that tle name. without any basis of fact. was taken as parcel of Mrs.
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