Who were the french huguenots?

Question

Why did they flee France?

Answer 1

The Huguenots are French Protestants and the descendants of Protestants who fled France during a period of bloody persecution in the 17th c. after the Edict of Nantes (1598) which had established a period of toleration, was revoked by King Louis XIV in 1685.

Some prominent French Protestants are the inventor and automotive engineer Karl Benz, architect Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe, designer of the U.S. Capitol, Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize-winning economist, and actors Marlon Brando and Robert Redford, John D. Rockefeller and Thierry Hermés, founder of the fashion company.

Answer 2

While doing genealogy about my family I discovered that I am related to this group of people. They are French protestants who fled France. They were being persecuted by the Catholic government in the 17th century. They fled to other parts of Europe and to Africa and America. What famous groups in history are you related to? I can help you find out.