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From the
16th
to the
18th century
the name
Huguenot
was describing a member of the
Protestant
Reformed Church
of
France
. They are sometimes known as the
French
Calvinists
.
After the
Saint Bartholomew
's Day Massacre in 1572 and the
French Wars of Religion
hundreds of thousands of French Protestants fled France, some to the
East End of London
, specifically Soho and Spitalfields. The
Treaty of Nantes
allowed them to stay in France without being massacred