Huguenots persecuted for Religious Beliefs

Well before that, but there was no love for them in France, don't forget France was the majority Catholic. Anyways in a nutshell I have outlined a summary from the WWW address from above.

In the Massacre of Vassy April 1562, Protestants took control of Orleans France and massacred Huguenots in Sens and Tours. In Toulouse, a riot resulted in the deaths of up to 3,000 people, many of them Huguenots. The battling continued into February of 1563 when Francis, Duke of Guise, was assassinated by a Huguenot during a siege on Orleans and a truce was agreed upon.

The next massacre on St. Bartholomew’s Day was in 1572 and saw 70,000 murders. Catholic citizens formed militia groups that hunted down Huguenot citizens, indulging not only in murder but gruesome torture, mutilation, and desecration of the dead. Leading to the first wave of Huguenot departures from France to England, Germany, and the Netherlands.

The Edict of Nantes 1598 ended the Civil War and Peace reigned for a while.

In 1643 Louis X1V once more began a persecution on the Huguenots. In 1685 he enacted the Edict of Fontainebleau, which made Protestantism illegal. Convert to Catholicism or die thus more than 200,000 Huguenots fled France. Just over the border in Italy, French troops ravaged the Protestant villages, with 12,000 Protestants rounded up into camps, where most starved to death. The few that did survive were sent to Germany.

The departure of the Huguenots was a disaster for France, costing the nation much of its cultural and economic influence. The Huguenots had many transferable skills so many countries welcomed them believing that the influx of skilled, literate workers could help them revive their economies.

The British were not friendly with French King Louis XIV, so Huguenots were welcomed there.

In South Africa with monetary help from the Dutch East India Company a few settlers stayed but after The Edict of Fontainbleau a few hundred took up the offer to re settle and started winemaking.

In America, some Huguenots had emigrated far earlier 1555 and 1564 than the mass movement in the 17th century, but many met with misfortune. In 1624, Huguenots began to arrive en masse in New York and the New Jersey areas. In 1628, some moved into what would become Bushwick, Brooklyn. Others moved to New Rochelle, New Paltz, New York, as well as Staten Island. By the time of the exodus beginning in 1685, Huguenot communities sprang up in other areas. Often, the Huguenot settlers would assimilate with existing Protestant groups. George Washington was descended from a Huguenot.

Are you saying you are going to shut me down/does that mean a ban?? I have only stated facts, I believe all religions should be respected. We live in the 21st century not the Dark Ages when Land Power Religion Fighting went hand in hand.
Catholicism does not equate to Fascism, in fact if it wasn't for good old Henry the 8th England might still have been Catholic. 
ps. my ancestors were Huguenots thus my interest in this subject.

OK thanks, quite agree too many religious massacres in our short time on Earth

eugene  all forgiven. It needs Elizabeth to translate for both of us.

The protestant/catholic distinction aside, I had a history teacher
who was Huguenot, and she was the most tyrannical racist psychopath
that ever pretended to be a teacher. When she nagged on about
the Huguenots being 'persecuted' I could only see how they
likely deserved it.

French Huguenots migrated in very large numbers to Charleston South Carolina and the rest of the Lowcountry during the colonial period. There is a Huguenot church in the city and one of our political families, the Ravenels, are of Huguenot descent. Arthur Ravenel, the "patriarch" of the Ravenel family so to speak, will always be remembered for a hilarious incident he had regarding the NAACP.

He called the NAACP the National Association for the Advancement of Retarded People. The NAACP then demanded an apology so he decided to apologize. When he got up to the podium on live TV to apologize, he proceeded to say in his thick Charleston Southern accent, "I apologize to ya'll retarded people for comparing you to the NAACP." Everyone sitting at home was laughing their arse off. The nice bridge leading into Charleston is named after Arthur Ravenel.