He became pastor of the first Huguenot church in North America in that city.

In 1598 he returned to France and became a minister of the Huguenot church in Paris and Charenton.

Anderson was minister of the Presbyterian church in Swallow Street, London, which had once been Huguenot church, and whose pastor in the 1690s was Desagulier's father.

The congregation it serves traces its origins to the 1680s, and is the only independent Huguenot church in the United States.

It revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598) and ordered the destruction of Huguenot churches.

After the Huguenot church fell out of use with the union of the Lutheran Protestants and the Reformed Church, it was soon converted into a school.

In Spitalfields there was a cluster of 11 Huguenot churches.

Afterwards Couet became minister of the French Huguenot church in Basel, but when normal conditions resumed continued to journey to and preach in Paris.

The cathedral was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot church in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.

He joined the Huguenot church in Threadneedle Street in 1624, and his wife Elizabeth may have been the daughter of the English publisher Thomas Jenner.