The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

ORIGIN OP TERM HUGUENOT. 3
applied to the Protestants by friends of his in introd.
Tours, eight or nine years iDefore the tumult
(1560) in Amboise, where they were first distinctively
called Huguenots. Taken all in all,
this explanation best coincides with the circumstances
and requisites of the rise of the
term.
As far as the purpose
cerned,
of this volume is con-
it will suffice to refer to the Rise and
Progress of the Huguenots, under the following
heads and as concisely as possible. I. The
Rise of the French Reformers (1512-33).
II. Their Endurance of Persecution under
forms of law, until their religion w^as recognized
(1534-62). in. The Huguenot Wars to
maintain their rights and to secure full toleration,
which was granted them in the Edict of
Nantes (1562-98). IV. Their Struggles from
the Edict of Nantes to its Revocation (1598-
1685).
I.
The Rise of the French Reformers (1512-33).
The seeds of Gospel Truth, which pro- Rise of
duced the great Reformation of the sixteenth ^«^o^-
ers.
centur}^, were first sown and germinated in
French soil. Before Martin Luther loomed up
before the world in Germany, and before the
burning desire for sacred learning had kindled
in the heart of Zwingle in Switzerland, the
great and vital truths from which the Reformation
sprung had begun to fall in France.
Indeed, history proves that the French,
German, and Swiss Reformations, though arising
about the same time, were in their incipiency
independent of and without any communication
one with the other. After each of