French protestants driven out of the country by the authorities for being protestant. Only being driven out was probably one of the nicer things that happened to them at the time, though.
Are you arguing that merely because of their nationality we can dismiss them? That makes no sense.
excuse me I am part French!
The Huguenots were a vicious and bloodthirsty group. Many of them were from Normandy and were seafarers - they ranged up and down the coast of Spain and Portugal, slaughtering entire villages of Spaniards and Portuguese, destroying the churches and religious items, stealing everything they could get, and capturing ships at sea. They were violent pirates who terrorized the Atlantic for many, many years, and in fact spread as far as the Caribbean. These were free-lancers, but other Huguenots were sent out on official voyages of depredation and terror by the French king.
There was nothing sweet and innocent about the Huguenots. But they were pragmatic, if nothing else: while their hatred of Catholics was their defining feature, they were the allies of the French king (widely rumored to be Protestant, although he was not) and many essentially functioned as privateers during his reign.
Incidentally, the Huguenots are credited with having made life miserable for Brazilians by destroying the majority of the Portuguese mission force: they captured a small fleet of ships bringing some 40 Jesuits to Brazil and killed them all, either slashing them up or simply throwing them overboard. It left the Brazilian Indians without their only defenders against the ravages of uncontrolled colonial exploitation.