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Also known as Huguenot people
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.
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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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