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Subject: [HWE] Earliest Huguenots in France?
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:04:35 -0700 (PDT)

In a posting from Chris, it looks as though we can now
say that we are in Rouen in 1528 as Protestants at
least. Still no mention of the word Huguenot but a
beginning.

Luther was making noises in 1521, so it seems that this
Reform movement only took at the longest 7 years to get
from Germany to France.. probably much shorter if folks
were already being burned at the stake over in Rouen.

I wonder how a lawyer, as Jean Calvin was, became so
interested in what a gathering of theologians were
yelling about. But that was much later than 1528.

Then again I suppose this seeming conflict does
indicate that "Protestantism" was around much longer
than the Reformist movement ? And both were about
before 'Huguenots'

So!..was it a 'Protestant' who began the French
Reformed Christians (Huguenots) or was it a Reformist ?

Anyone from the Huguenot Society (UK and Ireland) on
this list might be able to offer some light ?

Kind Regards,
Peter Leroy

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