I am thinking of creating a timeline in which France and the Dutch Republic are allied (I think an alliance of both would createa good counterweight to the English). I mean an alliance between equals, so not a Batavian Republicor Kingom of Holland type of alliance. So I started thinking about the Hugenots.
OTL they were tollerated for quite a while until basicly Louis XIV finaly was fed up with them and kicked them out. If France was allied to a Calvinist Netherlands, would he be more tollerant with the Hugenots, or would he kick them out the same. If he kicked them out anyway, would the Netherlands be a major refuge like OTL, or would the alliance prevent that? Basicly, did Louis care were the Hugenots went, as long as it was not France? Or would the Hugenots still be tollerated and basicly be the grease that would keep France and the Netherlands allied. Being Calvinist French could make them good intermediates between the Dutch and the French and possibly a way to connect both countries through mariages. One of the wifes of William "the Silent" of Orange had been a Hugenot after all.