 Jean Cauvin (John Calvin), another student at the University of Paris, also converted to Protestantism.Long after the sect was suppressed by Francis I, the remaining French Waldensians, then mostly in the Luberon region, sought to join Farel, Calvin and the Reformation, and Olivétan published a French Bible for them.The French Confession of 1559 shows a decidedly Calvinistic influence.<ref></ref>

Although usually Huguenots are lumped into one group, there were actually two types of Huguenots that emerged.<ref></ref> Since the Huguenots had political and religious goals, it was commonplace to refer to the Calvinists as "Huguenots of religion" and those who opposed the monarchy as "Huguenots of the state", who were mostly nobles.<ref></ref>

Like other religious reformers of the time, Huguenots felt that the Catholic Church needed a radical cleansing of its impurities, and that the Pope represented a worldly kingdom, which sat in mocking tyranny over the things of God, and was ultimately doomed.