Huguenots

French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)

The Huguenots ( , ; ) are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Besançon Hugues, was in common use by the mid-16th century. Huguenot was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard, were mainly Lutherans.

French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)

French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)

British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)

Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572

French military officer, historian, writer and poet (1552-1630)

French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880)

British engineer (1813-1898)

French nobleman and admiral and Huguenot leader (1519–1572)

Swiss monk (1915–2005)

American entrepreneur (1855–1932)

French writer

French general, Huguenot leader and founder of the House of Bourbon-Condé (1530-1569)

French duke (1560-1641)

Genevan painter (1702–1789)

French poet (1590-1696)

Infanta of Navarre, Princess of France, crown princess of Navarre and crown princess consort of Lorraine

French evangelist

French jeweler, traveler and author

Classical scholar and philologist (1559–1614)

French politician (1761-1793)

French writer

French artist (1510–1567)

French protestant martyr (1698–1762)

French prince du Sang; Huguenot general, lived (1553-1588)

French artist (1604-1676)

French jurisconsult

French, and then Genevan, physician, theologian and philosopher (1679–1767)

French theologian (1549-1623)

fourth wife of William the Silent (1555-1620)

British painter (1556-1617)

French composer

French Protestant minister and writer, Dean of Killaloe in Ireland

French-American chemist

French author, and founder of the Académie française

French classical scholar, writer and professor in Leiden (1588-1653)

Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the neighbouring Vaunage in southern France. In the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal. The Camisards operated throughout the mainly Protestant Cévennes and Vaunage regions including parts of the Camargue around Aigues Mortes. The revolt broke out in 1702, with the worst of the fighting continuing until 1704, then skirmishes until 1710 and a final peace by 1715. The Edict of Tolerance

French naval officer (1610–1688)

British civil engineer (1819–1891)

French architect (1571–1626)

French Protestant theologian (1599–1667)

French nobleman

Grandmother of George II of Great Britain and great-grandmother of Frederick the Great

British Army general

French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots (1579–1638)

Marshal of France

French architect

French aristocrat (1517–1571)

French writer and scholar

French dramatist and poet (1576-1666)

French theologian

French jurist/diplomat

French engineer (1576–1626)

French cleric and explorer

French navigator and colonizer

British film director (born 1960)

French pastor & politician (1743-1793)

Marshal of France (1543-1626)

French-Dutch printer and publisher