[ noun ] a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries <noun.person>
Huguenot \Hu"gue*not\, n. [F., properly a dim. of Hugues. The name is probably derived from the Christian name (Huguenot) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] (Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
They, too, are outsiders, Huguenot Protestants living in Catholic France who had themselves experienced isolation and persecution hundreds of years before.