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Between 1688 and 1700, about two hundred French Huguenots, desperate to escape religious persecution in France, accepted a Dutch East India Company offer of passage to the Cape and the grant of lands.
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They made contact with the area's earliest settlers, groups of Khoi herders, whom the white settlers gradually dispossessed.
By 1713 white hegemony was established and the area was known as de france hoek.
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Though French-speaking died out within a generation, many of the estates are still known by their original French names.
Franschhoek itself occupies parts of the original farms of La Cotte and Cabrière and is relatively young, having been established around a church built in 1833.
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