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Jean Claude (1619 – 13 January 1687) was a French Protestant. ... who commissioned him to write an account of the persecuted Huguenots ...
Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain (1710–1771), engraver. ... centrist politician, French prime minister, mother was a Huguenot descendant. [702] Jean-Pierre Cot ...
A two-volume illustrated folio paraphrase version based on his manuscript, by Jean de Rély, was printed in Paris in 1487. [30] [31] The first known translation of the Bible into one of France's regional languages, Arpitan or Franco-Provençal, had been prepared by the 12th-century pre-Protestant reformer Peter Waldo (Pierre de Vaux). [32]
Pages in category "Huguenots" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 286 total. ... Jean Claude; Charles de Clermont; François de Coligny ...
The 1562 Riots of Toulouse are a series of events (occurring largely in the span of a week) that pitted members of the Reformed Church of France (often called Huguenots) against members of the Roman Catholic Church in violent clashes that ended with the deaths of between 3,000 and 5,000 citizens of the French city of Toulouse.
When Jean-Claude Tourton died two years later on 26 July 1724, he had designated Thellusson as his universal legatee, not his Guiguer nephews. In no small party due to the fact that Thellusson was a Genevan Huguenot, the two Catholic Guiguer nephews successfully attacked the will. [5]
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598.Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1]
Between 1578 and 1581, the Queen resurrected attempts to negotiate a marriage with the Duke of Alençon. The Duke put himself forward as a protector of the Huguenots and a potential leader of the Dutch. [citation needed] In these years, Walsingham became friends with the diplomat of Henry of Navarre in England, the anti-monarchist Philippe de ...