ABSTRACT
This chapter re-investigates the contrasting claims about the fortunes of Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic, focusing on four different groups of migrants and their 'career paths' in exile: entrepreneurs in the textile industry, booksellers and publishers, refugee ministers, and the poor. It argues that the experience of exile was indeed more prosaic than Pierre Jurieu and some historians would have people believe. According to refugee minister Pierre Jurieu, the money and skills Huguenots had taken with them 'are lost to the State, while it has benefited the foreigners'. The burgomasters' resolutions none the less show that refugees could use their professional experience to their advantage, gaining a position on the Rotterdam market and transplanting their business from France. The impact of refugee booksellers on the Amsterdam market, in other words, was highly uneven, with only two big firms dominating the Huguenot publishing scene.
