Huguenots

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1. French Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who were frequently persecuted by the government and by the Roman Catholic Church. For a time, the Edict of Nantes allowed them to practice their religion in certain cities. When the edict was revoked by King Louis xiv in the late seventeenth century, many Huguenots left France. Some emigrated to America.

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Like the Huguenots before them, over time Jewish people dispersed from the area, some of them to the richer suburbs of north London.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025

Calvinism spread rapidly outside Geneva and found adherents in the Netherlands who established the Dutch Reformed Church, in Scotland where the Presbyterian Church was formed, and in France where its adherents were called Huguenots.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The edict established Catholicism as the official religion of France but also granted Huguenots the right to worship as they chose.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The French Wars of Religion, lasting from 1562 to 1598, pitted Catholics and Huguenots against each other, fighting for the soul of France.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2022

The ships were loaded with guns and other munitions, gold, silver, foodstuffs, livestock, and nearly a thousand sailors and Protestant colonists called Huguenots seeking freedom in the New World.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler