Saint John's Episcopal Church is right across Lafayette Park from the White House, known as the "Church of the Presidents." During the summer/fall violent left-wing insurrection by Maoist graffiti mafias, President Trump famously visited the church:
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What is not well known is that for 100 years that church was home of the French protestant church in Washington, DC...the Huguenot's...followers of Jean Calvin (John Calvin), of course a French theologian and the founder of the Presbyterian church. My wife and I were married there in September 1982 during a brief return on leave from Africa. There was at the time a plaque to the left of the lectern in a small hallway which listed all the US Presidents with Huguenot blood - I recall seeing Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, etc. on the list.
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I can't find a picture of the plaque..perhaps it has moved - I'll try to get through the ridiculous 10' high fences topped by razor wire to see if it's still in place. (Washington was totally boarded up in early Nov 2020 and it was not because of a couple of hundred "right-wing" protestors). But leave it to the French to kick out their most productive, innovative and imaginative citizens in 1685....only Cuba does it better.