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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, The Mallet Family. (search)
The Mallet Family. By Florence E. Carr.
there are many people in the United States to-day who bear the name of Mallet, and they are undoubtedly the descendants of those Mallets who were Huguenot refugees, and who came to this country at the time of the Revocation in France, or even earlier.
They were of a rich and powerful family of Normandy in the early history of France, and were early interested in the Reformation.
The title is still borne by the head of the family in France, viz., the Marquis Malet de Graville, and the name of Mallet is one still distinguished in France and America in art and science.
Baird, the historian, says: Charles, Duke of Orleans, third and favorite son of Francis I.,
of France, may have had sincere predilections for Protestantism.
At least, it is barely possible that the very remarkable instructions given to his secretary, Antoine de Mallet, when, on the eighth of September, 1543, Charles sent him to the Elector of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hess