Editing Huguenots (section)

===Early emigration to colonies===
{{See also|France Antarctique|French Florida}}
The first Huguenots to leave France sought freedom from persecution in Switzerland and the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Huguenot Refuge |url=https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/le-refuge-huguenot/ |website=Musée protestant |access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref> A group of Huguenots was part of the French colonisers who arrived in Brazil in 1555 to found {{Lang|fr|[[France Antarctique]]}}. A couple of ships with around 500 people arrived at the Guanabara Bay, present-day [[Rio de Janeiro]], and settled on a small island. A fort, named [[Fort Coligny]], was built to protect them from attack from the Portuguese troops and Brazilian natives. It was an attempt to establish a French colony in South America. The fort was destroyed in 1560 by the Portuguese, who captured some of the Huguenots. The Portuguese threatened their Protestant prisoners with death if they did not convert to Roman Catholicism. The Huguenots of Guanabara, as they are now known, produced what is known as the [[Guanabara Confession of Faith]] to explain their beliefs. The Portuguese executed them.