Huguenots
From the 16th to the 18th century the name Huguenot was describing a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. They are sometimes known as the French Calvinists.
After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 and the French Wars of Religion hundreds of thousands of French Protestants fled France, some to the East End of London, specifically Soho and Spitalfields. The Treaty of Nantes allowed them to stay in France without being massacred
Huguenots Media
- Huguenot cross.svg
French protestant symbol
- Croix huguenote.svg
A Huguenot Cross
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16th-century religious geopolitics on a map of modern France.* Controlled by Huguenot nobility* Contested between Huguenots and Catholics* Controlled by Catholic nobility* Lutheran-majority area
- Huguenot lovers on St. Bartholomew's Day.jpg
Millais' painting, A Huguenot on St. Bartholomew's Day
- La masacre de San Bartolomé, por François Dubois.jpg
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Protestants (1572). It was the climax of the French Wars of Religion, which were brought to an end by the Edict of Nantes (1598). In 1620, persecution was renewed and continued until the French Revolution in 1789.
- Henry IV en Herculeus terrassant l Hydre de Lerne cad La ligue Catholique Atelier Toussaint Dubreuil circa 1600.jpg
Henry IV, as Hercules vanquishing the Lernaean Hydra (i.e., the Catholic League), by Toussaint Dubreuil, circa 1600
- Expulsion from La Rochelle of 300 Protestant famillies Nov 1661 Jan Luiken 1649 1712.jpg
Expulsion from La Rochelle of 300 Protestant families in November 1661
- Jean Cavalier chef camisard.jpg
Huguenot rebel leader Jean Cavalier during the War of the Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc
