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The 1 million or so Huguenots were forced to recant their Protestant (specifically Calvinist) faith in favor of Catholicism. Some 200,000 fled the country, illegally, and settled in England, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland, British America and South Africa - places where the three main Protestant faiths of the time were practiced. Some who refused to recant were killed, some simply had their children taken from them. Anyone who could not, at the very least, act like a Catholic was supposed to act in the early modern era was under suspicion. Basically, this was not a good time to be a Huguenot in France.

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