Editing Huguenots (section)

===Effects===
The exodus of Huguenots from France created a [[brain drain]], as many of them had occupied important places in society. The kingdom did not fully recover for years. The French crown's refusal to allow non-Catholics to settle in [[New France]] may help to explain that colony's low population compared to that of the neighboring British colonies, which opened settlement to religious dissenters. By the start of the [[French and Indian War]], the North American front of the [[Seven Years' War]], a sizeable population of Huguenot descent lived in the British colonies, and many participated in the British defeat of New France in 1759–1760.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-5876486_ITM |title=Cooperative religion in Quebec |work=Journal of Ecumenical Studies |publisher=Goliath |date=22 March 2004 |access-date=2 August 2010}}</ref>

[[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg]], invited Huguenots to settle in his realms, and a number of their descendants rose to positions of prominence in Prussia. Several prominent German military, cultural and political figures were ethnic Huguenot, including the poet [[Theodor Fontane]],<ref>Steinhauer, Harry. ''Twelve German Novellas'', p. 315. University of California Press, 1977. {{ISBN|0-520-03002-8}}</ref> General [[Hermann von François]],<ref>Pawly, Ronald. ''The Kaiser's Warlords'', p. 44. Osprey Publishing, 2003. {{ISBN|1-84176-558-9}}</ref> the hero of the [[First World War]]'s [[Battle of Tannenberg]], [[Luftwaffe]] general and [[flying ace|fighter ace]] [[Adolf Galland]],<ref name="Galland 1954, p. vii">Galland 1954, p. vii.</ref> the Luftwaffe flying ace [[Hans-Joachim Marseille]], WWII [[Wehrmacht]] Lieutenant Colonel/[[Inspector General of the Bundeswehr]] [[Ulrich de Maizière]] and the famed [[U-boat]] Captains [[Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière]] and [[Wilhelm Souchon]].<ref>Miller, David. ''U-boats'', p. 12. Brassey's, 2002. {{ISBN|1-57488-463-8}}</ref> Related to Ulrich de Maizière were also the last prime minister of [[East Germany]], [[Lothar de Maizière]]<ref>Leiby, Richard A. ''The Unification of Germany, 1989–1990'', p. 109. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. {{ISBN|0-313-29969-2}}</ref> and the former German [[Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community|Federal Minister of the Interior]], [[Thomas de Maizière]]. A 2014 study in the ''American Economic Review'' linked Huguenot migration to Prussia with a boost in industrial productivity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hornung |first=Erik |date=2014 |title=Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.104.1.84 |journal=American Economic Review |language=en |volume=104 |issue=1 |pages=84–122 |doi=10.1257/aer.104.1.84 |issn=0002-8282|hdl=10419/37227 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

The persecution and the flight of the Huguenots greatly damaged the reputation of [[Louis XIV]] abroad, particularly in England. Both kingdoms, which had enjoyed peaceful relations until 1685, became bitter enemies and fought each other in a series of wars, called the "[[Second Hundred Years' War]]" by some historians, from 1689 onward.