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The population of Switzerland was naturally greatly Switzerland 

 enlai-ged by the number of refugees who there found 

 asylum. Geneva benefited by the coming of workers in 

 silk and wool, print manufacturers, goldsmiths and watch- 

 makers. A greater advantage even resulted from the 

 gathering there and at Lausanne of many families of 

 rank, the artists and men of science, who raised the 

 social culture. It should be noted that wherever they 

 went the Huguenots conferred not ouly commercial bene- 

 fits and carried their religion, but they elevated the 

 culture. To their refining influence the refugees added 

 a material benefit throughout Switzerland. They im- 

 proved the vinegrowing and husbandly, and added the 

 culture of orchards and kitchen gardens. This was the 

 same thing they did in the New World ; besides opening 

 shops, starting manufactures as they were needed, and 

 generally taking the initiative in improvements. 



Germany owes not a little of its present fame as a "Made in 

 manufacturing country to the French immigrants who the French ^ 

 were hospitably taken in when they were homeless. 

 ''Made in Germany" is stamped on many manufactures 

 which, if the history was traced back, would show a 

 Huguenot hand at the beginning. Jewelry, woollen 

 goods, flannels, carpets and cloths, hats and gloves, all 

 sorts of ornamental wares, for which Germany is known 

 were introduced by the French artisans. There were 

 agricultural as well as industrial settlements, and French 

 villages dotted many a German vjilley. There were also 

 many gentle families, which gradually became absorbed 

 in the German population. The one thing that made 

 the French unpopular was their lively, light-hearted be- 

 haviour, which seemed frivolous to the staid German, 

 who appreciated neither their talkativeness in church, 

 their strange dress with short cloaks, nor their snuff-boxes. 



This did not apply so much to Berlin, which got the BerUn 

 most out of the French both in manufactures and man- 

 ners. Hither flocked not only the best artisans, as to 



