If you are a history lover, you will enjoy knowing many unknown facts related to sixteenth and seventeenth-century French Protestants who followed the teaching of John Calvin.
Few details about the Huguenots
Huguenots were a minority religious group persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church as they did not follow the traditional views and practices of the Romans. Under the leadership of John Calvin, these people tried to break the shackles of the medieval church and searched for salvation through their sole faith in Jesus Christ.
The most astonishing part of this protest was that even the elite people and bright people of the French upper class had joined in this movement. It gained popularity as ten per cent of the French population engaged themselves in this revolt.
They rejected the corruption and ill-treatment that existed in the middle age Roman Catholic Church ideologies.
Huguenots: the reason for their persecution
Huguenots were well-educated people with proficiency in the textile industry. When Henry of Navarre became the king in the year 1589, he declared that Huguenots can freely worship without any hindrances even though he became catholic.
Everything changed when Louis XIV ascended the throne. He announced Protestantism was illegal in France. No one was spared from his wrath. Children, and elderly people all were persecuted because they thought cleansing the population was necessary to eliminate the Protestantism movement from the crowd. All Huguenots had to take shelter outside France to save their lives.
Finally, after the French revolution, came the declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen in 1789 when religious freedom was allowed to all.
You can get more helpful hints about this whole movement if you read the book “Institutes of the Christian Religion”. It is not only a powerful book to read but also proves to be influential to you.
The complete details of this incident are well documented on this website: https://jeanribault.org/french-huguenot/