Note 128 — Chapter III · REIGN OF FRANCIS II. [1559–1560.]
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There has been much dispute about the origin of this word, but it probably came from Geneva, where the citizens had long been divided into two politico-religious parties, known as the Mamelukes and Huguenots. Merle d’Aubigné: Reformation in Time of Calvin, vol. i. p. 118.