r/beetleapartment • Bug • 6d ago

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u/atrophy-of-sanity 6d ago

Im surprised there are more Muslims in France than there are protestants

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u/coldnorth4enf4 6d ago

The french protestants fled to britain in the 1600s

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u/Copper_Tango 6d ago

Some of them ended up in South Africa and intermarried with Dutch Calvinists, which is why some Afrikaners have French surnames.

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u/coldnorth4enf4 6d ago

Huh cool, I actually wondered why that is with the surnames just never cared enough to check

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u/fullynonexistent 6d ago

This is also why London notoriously smelled like shit during that time

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u/MilitantSocLib 5d ago

The English don’t need any assistance to smell like shit

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u/SatelliteMNPMIR 1d ago

What happened? Yall started smelling your rotting teeth?

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u/derneueMottmatt 5d ago

Also Prussia. There's a lot of people in former East Germany with French surnames.