Montpellier to Orange, France

Montpellier is one of the few large cities in France without a (Gallo-)Roman background. At the time of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, many of the inhabitants of Montpellier became Protestants (or Huguenots as they were known in France) and the city became a stronghold of Protestant resistance to the Catholic French crown. The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. By the end of the 17th century, roughly 200,000 Huguenots had been driven from France during a series of religious persecutions, and relocated to many different areas of Europe, Africa and North America.