Unique French Polity
...the polity of most Reformed churches owes a debt to the unique ecclesiastical structure established by the French Reformed.
Theodore G. Van Raalte, "The French Reformed Synods of the Seventeenth Century", in Martin Klauber, ed., The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), 93-94