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Pierre Rochefort in Boucher

The refugee Pierre Rochefort was born at Grenoble,105 where Calvinists, although very much in a minority, were not without influence. The temple was usually served in the seventeenth century by two pastors, often loaned by the church in Geneva. The minister there, Alexandre Vigne, who publicly repudiated Calvinism in 1684, used his literary talents in defence of Protestantism before his abjuration and to attack it after he became a Catholic.106 Rochefort was perhaps of good family. His parents, citizens of Grenoble who had died before July 1702, were Edouard Arnaud and Virginie Chevalier. Both surnames are represented in Calvinist circles in Grenoble in 1670. Mathieu Chevalier, an innkeeper, was living there at that time, as was Daniel Arnaud, a master mason.10" It will be recalled that the name Arnaud has been mentioned in connection with the minister Pierre Simond. Rochefort may have assumed a nickname, or perhaps his surname represented a territorial holding in the family. A Cape settler whose original home • M. Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA: Ch 7: Cape Settlers III: from South-Eastern France and Adjoining Territories p181