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Black and white illustration of grieving Huguenots comforting each other indoors as a group of people look anxiously out a window during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France.
Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day French Huguenots grieving after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day (August 24–25, 1572), in which thousands of Huguenots were killed by French Catholic forces.

Huguenot

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Huguenot, any of the Protestants in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it appears to have come from the word aignos, derived from the German Eidgenossen (confederates bound together by oath), which used to describe, between 1520 and 1524, the patriots of Geneva hostile to the duke of Savoy. The spelling Huguenot may have been influenced by...

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