 The growing persecution of the Huguenots culminated with the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685.Many Huguenots emigrated, founding such cities as New Rochelle in the vicinity of today's New York in 1689.La Rochelle, and the siege of 1627 form much of the backdrop to the later chapters of Alexandre Dumas, père's classic novel, "The Three Musketeers".