The Huguenots were Calvinists.
Huguenots were French Protestants who fled to Holland, England, and America in search of Religious Freedom. The St. Bartholamew's Day Massacre, instigated by Catherine Medici, mother of the weak juvenile King Francis of France, and other Catholic Persecutions drove them from France.
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The Protestants in France also known as the Huguenots or Calvinists.
John Calvin's followers were called Huguenots in France.
1598 from the Edict of Nantes
The Huguenots were Calvinists.
Huguenots are Protestants.
they were known by the names "huguenots" or "protestants"
The great exodus of Huguenots did not happen after the Great Revolution of 1789. It happened more than 100 years earlier, under Louis XIV after he revoked the Edict of Nantes that had given Huguenots freedom of religion and freedom from persecution. That happened in 1685. Most Huguenots fled to The Netherlands, to the Dutch Cape Colony, to Switzerland and to England. Some emigrated to the then French colonies in North America.
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Les Huguenots was created in 1836.
The Huguenots are the French Calvinists
Huguenots were French Protestants who fled to Holland, England, and America in search of Religious Freedom. The St. Bartholamew's Day Massacre, instigated by Catherine Medici, mother of the weak juvenile King Francis of France, and other Catholic Persecutions drove them from France.
The Huguenots came from France when they were driven out by the promise of religious toleration.
Another word for French Huguenots is Calvinists, as they were followers of the teachings of John Calvin in France during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Huguenots. They were sometimes also called "Calvinistes", but this term did not become nearly as famous as the term, "Huguenots".