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Huguenot
Huguenot Hu"gue*not, n. [F., properly a dim. of Hugues. The name is probably derived from the Christian name (Huguenot) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] (Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

Meaning of Huguenot from wikipedia

- The Huguenots (/ˈhjuːɡənɒts/ HEW-gə-nots, UK also /-noʊz/ -⁠nohz; French: [yɡ(ə)no]) are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed...
- The Huguenot rebellions, sometimes called the Rohan Wars after the Huguenot leader Henri de Rohan, were a series of rebellions of the 1620s in which French...
- Look up Huguenot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Huguenots was a name given to French Calvinists from the 16th to the 18th century. Huguenot may also...
- The Huguenot Tunnel is a toll tunnel near Cape Town, South Africa. It extends the N1 national road through the Du Toitskloof mountains that separate Paarl...
- The Huguenot station is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Huguenot, Staten Island, New York. The station opened on June 2, 1860,...
- ********inations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally...
- Some notable French Huguenots or people with French Huguenot ancestry include: Salomon de Brosse (1571–1626), French architect. Isaac de Caus (1590–1648)...
- series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence...
- The Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa, is dedicated to the cultural influences that Huguenots have brought to the Cape Colony...
- The history of the Huguenots in Kent dates back to the mid 1500s. In the mid-16th century many Huguenots, experiencing ****cution and conflict in France...