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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Translation help please
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:20:46 EDT
In a message dated 8/20/2004 8:22:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
Could someone please translate this short passage for me? Ellen kindly
mentioned it in reply to my postings last night regarding the deForests of
Avesnes and Leiden, and the online translator I used botched it pretty good.
Thanks!
Sharon
Jessé de Forest
Jessé de Forest est né à Avesnes au milieu du XVIè siècle, d'une famille
solidement implantée en ville qui comptait parmi ses membres des échevins et
un chanoine. Il s'exila à cause de sa foi protestante, mais d'abord en
France où l'édit de Nantes assurait la liberté de culte et le plus près
possible de son pays, en Thiérache, à Montcornet. Puis l'espoir d'un retour
s'amenuisant, il alla en Hollande en 1615. Mais ce pays n'était pas le sien
et il partit avec 56 autres compagnons, originaires comme lui du Sud du
Hainaut vers les Amériques. Il ne s'agissait pas d'abolir tout souvenir,
mais bien au contraire, de recréer un pays qui serait le sien : une
Nouvelle-Avesnes. Jessé ne vit pas cet accomplissement. Il mourut en Guyane
le 22 octobre 1624. Ses enfants et ses compagnons trouvèrent asile sur l'île
de Manhattan que les Hollandais appelèrent ensuite, New Amsterdam et les
conquérants anglais, New York.
Le Lycée général, professionnel et hôtelier d'Avesnes porte son nom ainsi
qu'une avenue sur laquelle est érigée une stelle en son hommage.
Jesse de Forest was born at Avesnes in the mid-Sixteenth Century, of a
family firmly established in the city, which included among its members city
councilors and a canon. He left the country in exile because of his Protestant
faith, first in France, where the Edict of Nantes assured freedom of religion
and he settled close to his homeland, in Thierache, at Montcornet. Then the
hope of returning home faded, and he went to Holland in 1615. But that land
was not his own, and, together with 56 companions from southern Hainaut, like
himself, he left for the Americas. At first, there was no intention to wipe
out all remembrance; on the contrary, they sought to create a new homeland
that would be truly their own, a new Avesnes. Jesse did not see this goal
accomplished, however; he died in Guyana on October 23, 1624. His children and
his companions found asylum on Manhattan Island, which the Hollanders called
New Amsterdam, and later, the English conquerors called New York.
The general, professional and hotel management secondary school at Avesnes
bears his name, as well as an avenue on which a monument is erected in his
honor.
Fr Owen Taggart
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