Editing Cape of Good Hope (section)

==== The French refugees in the Cape Colony ====
On 31 December 1687, a community of [[Huguenots]] (French Protestants) arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from the Netherlands. They had fled from France due to religious persecution and gone to the Netherlands,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Huguenot History |url=https://huguenotmuseum.org/about/the-huguenots/ |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=The Huguenot Museum}}</ref> before making the journey to the Cape Colony. Members of this group included [[Pierre Joubert (viticulturalist)|Pierre Joubert]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=La Motte's French heritage firmly rooted |url=https://la-motte.com/blogs/news/la-motte-s-french-heritage-firmly-rooted |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=La Motte|date=29 May 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=de Bruin |first=Karen de Bruin |title=From Viticulture to Commemoration: French Huguenot Memory in the Cape Colony (1688–1824) |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/0642292.0047.007/--from-viticulture-to-commemoration-french-huguenot-memory?rgn=main;view=fulltext |journal=Michigan Publishing |date=2021 |volume=47 |via=University of Rhode Island}}</ref> who came from [[La Motte-d'Aigues]], as well as [[Jean Roy (Huguenot)|Jean Roy]]. The Dutch East India Company needed skilled farmers at the Cape of Good Hope and the Dutch government saw opportunities to settle Huguenots at the Cape. The colony gradually grew over the 150 years that followed until it extended hundreds of kilometers to the north and the north-east.