Huguenot Heritage in France, Episode 427
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In the early 1500s, when there were groups of Protestants or reformed Christians who were not allowed to have a place to worship in the city of Ture and the Luau Valley. They went outside and they sang and did their prayers next to the Ture Huguen, which is a huge medieval power from the early part of the Middle Ages. Nobody really knows for sure why they came to be called the Huguenots. But by the end of the 1500s out of a country of 18 million, it is estimated that 8 million were Protestant.
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