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Jean Baptiste Boisseaux, a Huguenot, immigrated from France to the United States to fight in the French Army under General Lafayette in the American Revolutionary War. He settled afterwards in Pennsylvania, married Barbara Frick, and later moved to land in Wood County, Virginia (now West Virginia), where he died after 1834. Descendants lived in West Virginia and elsewhere.
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Recently scholars have become increasingly aware of Zurich's role as an intellectual and cultural centre of the European Reformation. This study focuses on a little-known aspect of the Zurich church's international activity: its relationship with Italian-speaking evangelicals during the period 1540-1620. The work assesses the importance of Zwinglian influences within the early Italian evangelical movement and Zurich's contribution to the spread of the Reformation in Italian-speaking territories such as Locarno and southern Graubünden. It shows how, following the establishment of the Roman Inquisition in July 1542, senior Zurich churchmen emerged as important points of contact for Italian re...