The Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… The Huguenots were French Protestants who were members of the Calvinist Reformed Church that was established in … France for their religious beliefs. Therefore, thousands of Huguenots fled to countries such as Switzerland, Germany, … or experienced farmers. In 1688 the first large group of French Huguenots (180), composed mostly of families, …