[AMDG&BVMH]

"destroy the Protestants"

They (Hugenots) were invited into Prussia. Some also came to America.

The French Revolution, though, killed more than enough Catholics to make up for it.

[muawiyah]

Interestingly enough, the French Reveolution returned to the nation's vomit in the Vondee. Carrier proceeded to kill peasants like there was no tomorrow ~ even built this drowning machine.

If there were any Protestants (Huguenots) left in the Beauge, this got rid of them ~ and in numbers far exceeding all of the intentional hits on Catholics! Even today, this part of France has proportionally fewer Evangelicals than the other parts, and the disparity is usually attributed to both the rage of Louis XIV and the stupidity of the Revolutionaries.

When you are doing a genealogical search and you find the targeted surname shows up everywhere but France circa 1650 to 1800, look in the older French records ~ they probably lived there before they fled for their lives into all neighboring or accessible countries.

[muawiyah]

I'd like to clarify something here - there were French Catholics killed in the French Revolution. More Protestants would have been killed, of course, but Louis XVI's grandfather had already done them in.

The "Religious Wars" in France, Germany, and Scandinavia of the 16th and 17th Centuries (I include the Thirty Years War) involved millions and millions of deaths, mostly of the innocent.

Serious killing on that scale didn't begin again until the French Revolution had been disposed of in the Thermidor and Napoleon had taken command of the Army.