ABSTRACT
In the early years of the eighteenth century, two members of the Rainbow Coffee House circle in London made a particular contribution to the spread of unorthodox ideas from England to continental Europe: the Huguenot journalists Pierre Des Maizeaux and Michel de Laroche. This is hardly surprising, as they had themselves suffered the consequences of religious intolerance, but their sympathies developed well beyond the Latitudinarian toleration they found within the Anglican Church. Even the Act of Toleration of 1689 gave no protection to those who publicly denied the doctrine of the Trinity. Huguenot writers in London did provide mutual support by reviewing each other's work; so for example Des Maizeaux's newsletters in the NRL mentioned de Laroche's Memoirs of Literature, and he in turn reviewed Des Maizeaux's collection of pieces by Locke and his biographies of Hales and Chillingworth.
