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First applied to the Reformed Church party in the Amboise Plot (1560). From the German eidgenossen (confederates).
Huguenot Pope (La pape des Huguenots). Philippe de Mornay, the great supporter of the French Protestants. (1549–1623.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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