After less than a decade in France, and following the Wars of Religion and in particular the St Bartholomew Day Massacre, it finally became clear to the Reformed exiles from Lucca that France was never going to provide them with the safe haven they had hoped for. Consequently, many of them decided to settle in Geneva where some, of course, had intended to go all along, while others sought renewed refuge in some of the major trading centres of Germany and the Netherlands which offered a measure of toleration. Their exodus from France initiated a series of migrations between some of the leading north-western European cities involving a number of family members. Combined with their intermarriage into other refugee Reformed merchant families, primarily from Antwerp, this served to grow and expand a Reformed network built around wealthy merchant families who all shared the experience of persecution and exile. Giuliano Calandrini’s children offer particularly pertinent examples of how this Reformed network grew and consolidated itself.