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HuguenotFrench Protestant in the 16th century; the term referred mainly to Calvinists. Persecuted under Francis I and Henry II, the Huguenots survived both an attempt to exterminate them (the Massacre of St Bartholomew on 24 August 1572) and the religious wars of the next 30 years. In 1598 Henry IV (himself formerly a Huguenot) granted them toleration under the Edict of Nantes. Louis XIV revoked the edict in 1685, attempting their forcible conversion, and 400,000 emigrated. |
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| 75) In Peyrehorade, where Catholic and Hugenot communities existed side-by-side, municipal authorities allowed an Iberian Jewish community of conversos to flourish in the 1600s. It is bounded by Hugenot Street on the north, Anderson Plaza on the south, LeCount Place on the east and North Street on the west. Rambaut was a descendent of Hugenots who had fled persecution and settled in Dublin, Ireland. |
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