A History
of the Huguenots
by
W. Carlos Martyn
The
American Tract Society
1866
This is an excellent and inspiring tale of the Huguenots, the French Calvinists. Calvin was a Frenchman and his reformation in the French speaking Swiss city of Geneva had a profound impact on his homeland. Until it was extirpated in blood in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and buried under the persecutions that overwhelmed the French Calvinists after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the reformation in France was of a power, purity, and popularity, that the whole nation would have become Reformed. The story of these heroic Christians and their struggles for the faith is an edifying exercise for those who desire to know more of their spiritual heritage.
The book starts with the history of pre-Reformation France covering the earlier reform movements of the Vaudois, and Cathars, etc. This less well known and fascinating part of history is a valuable addition to this work.
The book has thirty-six chapters. They are concise, relatively short, and very readable. To avoid having thirty-six web-pages, rather than as have been our practice of having a web-page for each chapter, the chapters have been grouped in sections by subject matter.
Section ONE
Chapters 1-9
History of the Vaudois
Section Two
Chapters 10-14
The Reformation in France
Section Three
Chapters 15-23
The Battles for the Faith
Section Four
Chapters 24-36
Heroism and Tragedy
