Huguenots
Sign in to saveThe 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.
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The Huguenots were French Protestants who followed Calvinist beliefs during the Protestant Reformation, with the name coming into common use by the mid-16th century. They matter historically because they represented a significant religious movement in France, distinct from the Lutheran Protestants of eastern France, and their identity as Reformed Christians shaped religious divisions in early modern Europe.
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- Etymology
- Symbol
- Demographics
- Links to nobility
- Emigration and diaspora
- History
- Origins
- Reformation and growth
- Wars of religion
- Civil wars
- St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
- Edict of Nantes
- Edict of Fontainebleau
- End of persecution
- Right of return to France in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Modern times
- Exodus
- The trip
- Early emigration to colonies
- South Africa
- North America
- Spoken language
- Netherlands
- Great Britain and Ireland
- England
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- Germany and Scandinavia
- Poland
- Effects
- 1985 apology
- Legacy
- The Huguenots of Geneva’s French Protestant Utopia and its influence on Western economic thought
- France
- United States
- England
- Prussia
- Ireland
- South Africa
- Australia
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- In French
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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.
In his Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans Hillerbrand wrote that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community made up as much as 10% of the French population. By 1600, it declined to 7–8%, and was reduced further late in the century after the return of persecution under Louis XIV, who instituted the Dragonnades to forcibly convert Protestants, and then finally revoked all Protestant rights in his Edict of Fontainebleau of 1685. In 1686, Protestants comprised just 1% of the population.
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