Editing Huguenots (section)

===South Africa===
{{Main|Huguenots in South Africa}}
Huguenots first settled at the [[Cape of Good Hope]] in 1671; the first documented was the wagonmaker François Vilion ([[Viljoen]]). The first Huguenot to arrive at the Cape of Good Hope was [[Maria van Riebeeck|Maria de la Quellerie]], wife of commander [[Jan van Riebeeck]] (and daughter of a [[Walloon church]] minister), who arrived on 6 April 1652 to establish a settlement at what is today [[Cape Town]]. The couple left for [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] ten years later.

But it was not until 31 December 1687 that the first organised group of Huguenots set sail from the Netherlands to the [[Dutch East India Company]] post at the Cape of Good Hope.<ref name="FRC-7">{{cite book |last=Botha |first=Colin Graham |title=The French refugees at the Cape |page=7 |url=https://archive.org/stream/frenchrefugeesat00both#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=21 July 2009 }}</ref> The largest portion of the Huguenots to settle in the Cape arrived between 1688 and 1689 in seven ships as part of the organised migration, but quite a few arrived as late as 1700; thereafter, the numbers declined and only small groups arrived at a time.<ref name="FRC-10">{{cite book |last=Botha |first=Colin Graham |title=The French refugees at the Cape |page=10 |url=https://archive.org/stream/frenchrefugeesat00both#page/10/mode/1up |access-date=21 July 2009 }}</ref> Many of these settlers were given land in an area that was later called {{Lang|nl|[[Franschhoek]]}} ([[Dutch language|Dutch]] for 'French Corner'), in the present-day [[Western Cape]] province of South Africa. A large monument to commemorate the arrival of the Huguenots in South Africa was inaugurated on 7 April 1948 at Franschhoek. The Huguenot Memorial Museum was also erected there and opened in 1957.

The official policy of the [[Dutch East India Company|Dutch East India]] governors was to integrate the Huguenot and the [[Cape Dutch|Dutch communities]]. When Paul Roux, a pastor who arrived with the main group of Huguenots, died in 1724, the Dutch administration, as a special concession, permitted another French cleric to take his place "for the benefit of the elderly who spoke only French".<ref>{{cite book |first=Eric |last=Walker |title=A History of Southern Africa |publisher=Longmans |year=1968 |chapter=Chapter IV – The Diaspora }}</ref> But with [[language shift|assimilation]], within three generations the Huguenots had generally adopted Dutch as their first and home language.

Many of the farms in the Western Cape province in South Africa still bear French names. Many families, today, mostly [[Afrikaans]]-speaking, have surnames indicating their French Huguenot ancestry. Examples include: Blignaut, Cilliers, Cronje (Cronier), de Klerk (Le Clercq), [[de Villiers]], du Plessis, Du Preez (Des Pres), du Randt (Durand), du Toit, Duvenhage (Du Vinage), Franck, Fouché, Fourie (Fleurit), Gervais, Giliomee (Guilliaume), Gous/Gouws (Gauch), Hugo, Jordaan (Jourdan), [[Joubert]], Kriek, Labuschagne (la Buscagne), [[Leroux (surname)|le Roux]], Lombard, [[Malan (disambiguation)|Malan]], [[Malherbe (surname)|Malherbe]], Marais, Maree, Minnaar (Mesnard), Nel (Nell), Naudé, Nortjé (Nortier), [[Pienaar]] (Pinard), Retief (Retif), Roux, Rossouw ([[Rousseau (surname)|Rousseau]]), Taljaard (Taillard), TerBlanche, Theron, [[Viljoen]] (Vilion) and Visagie (Visage).<ref>{{cite book |title=Ces Français qui ont Fait l'Afrique du Sud |trans-title=The French People Who Made South Africa |author=Bernard Lugan |date=1996 |publisher=C. de Bartillat |isbn=2-84100-086-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNQ5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA274 |title=The London Quarterly Review |volume=44 |chapter=William Shaw and South Africa |editor1-last=Watkinson |editor1-first=William Lonsdale |editor2-last=Davison |editor2-first=William Theophilus |publisher=J.A. Sharp |page=274 |year=1875 |access-date=7 July 2017 |via=Google Books }}</ref> The [[south African wine|wine industry in South Africa]] owes a significant debt to the Huguenots, some of whom had [[vineyard]]s in France, or were brandy distillers, and used their skills in their new home.