HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Huguenots
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Detailed explanation-1: -Huguenots were French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of theologian John Calvin . Persecuted by the French Catholic government during a violent period, Huguenots fled the country in the 17th century, creating Huguenot settlements all over Europe, in the United States and Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Huguenots (/ˈhjuːɡənɒts/ HEW-gə-nots, also UK: /-noʊz/-nohz, French: [yɡ(ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism.
Detailed explanation-3: -The spelling Huguenot may have been influenced by the personal name Hugues, “Hugh”; a leader of the Geneva movement was one Besançon Hugues (d. 1532).
Detailed explanation-4: -Protestants were granted a degree of religious freedom following the Edict of Nantes, but it ceased with the Edict of Fontainebleau. The Protestant minority was persecuted, and a majority of Huguenots fled the country, leaving isolated communities like the one in the Cevennes region, which survives to this day.