ABSTRACT
Among those who played an important role in the typical form of military service in the early modern period, as illustrated by the studies referred to in this chapter, were Huguenots affected by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The chapter explores the movements of some of them as they travelled to one of France's neighbours, Savoy-Piedmont, which, from the late seventeenth century onwards, had become increasingly independent of the earlier political influence exerted by its powerful neighbour. It goes back to the the sixteenth century when the territories of Savoy-Piedmont became a target for migratory waves of Protestants from France and Geneva. The study also explains how the presence of Huguenot soldiers, and Protestants in general, fits into a Savoyard social fabric that also welcomed other categories of Protestant groups employed in lay professions.
