David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

state. One king after another tried to
make them reunite with the Catholic
Church. The Huguenot movement was
banned. There were public roundups and
massacres. Thousands of Huguenot men
were sent to the gallows. Women were
imprisoned for life. Children were put in
Catholic foster homes in order to rid
them of their faith. The reign of terror
lasted more than a century. In the late
seventeenth century, two hundred
thousand Huguenots fled France for
other countries in Europe and North
America. Those few who remained were
forced underground. They worshiped in
secrecy, in remote forests. They
retreated to high mountain villages on