Editing Refugee (section)

==Etymology and usage==
In English, the term ''refugee'' derives from the root word ''refuge'', from [[Old French]] ''refuge'', meaning "hiding place". It refers to "shelter or protection from danger or distress", from [[Latin]] ''fugere'', "to flee", and ''refugium'', "a taking [of] refuge, place to flee back to". In Western history, the term was first applied to French Protestant [[Huguenots]] looking for a safe place against Catholic persecution after the [[Edict of Fontainebleau (1540)|first Edict of Fontainebleau]] in 1540.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKPFHuiFr6MC&q=refuge| title = La vraye et entière histoire des troubles et guerres civiles advenues de nostre temps, tant en France qu'en Flandres & pays circonvoisins, depuis l'an mil cinq cens soixante, jusques à présent.| year = 1584}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://refuge-huguenot.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/histoire.php| title = Base de données du refuge huguenot}}</ref> The word appeared in the English language when French Huguenots fled to Britain in large numbers after the 1685 [[Edict of Fontainebleau]] (the revocation of the 1598 [[Edict of Nantes]]) in France and the 1687 [[Declaration of Indulgence (1687)|Declaration of Indulgence]] in England and Scotland.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.historytoday.com/robin-gwynn/englands-first-refugees|title=England's 'First Refugees'|first=Robin|last=Gwynn|journal=History Today|date=5 May 1985|access-date=18 January 2019|volume=35|issue=5}}</ref> The word meant "one seeking asylum", until around 1916, when it evolved to mean "one fleeing home", applied in this instance to civilians in Flanders heading west to escape fighting in [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Refugee |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=refugee |work=Online Etymological Dictionary |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>