1. Concept
“Huguenot” from the 16th to 18th centuries was the originally pejorative term for French Calvinists. It probably derived from eyguenot (“oath-companion, confederate”, cf. the German word for the Swiss, Eidgenosse), attested from 1520. Reformation sympathizers were initially called évangéliques or luthériens in official documents, but after the 1560 Amboise Conspiracy, the ter…