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Consequently, many Huguenots considered the wealthy and Calvinist-controlled Dutch Republic, which also happened to lead the opposition to Louis XIV, as the most attractive country for exile after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They also found many French-speaking Calvinist churches there (which were called the "Walloon churches").
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 ]
"Huguenot writers, who had previously, for the most part, paraded their loyalty to the Crown, now called for the deposition or assassination of a Godless king who had either authorised or permitted the slaughter". [13] Thus, the massacre "marked the beginning of a new form of French Protestantism: one that was openly at war with the crown.
The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895) online. Dubois, E. T. "The revocation of the edict of Nantes — Three hundred years later 1685–1985." History of European Ideas 8#3 (1987): 361–365. reviews 9 new books. online; Scoville, Warren Candler. The persecution of Huguenots and French economic development, 1680-1720 ...
Parthenay became a Calvinist [3] during the Protestant Reformation. They were called Huguenots. Calvinism grew after John Calvin fled Paris due to his religious conversion. He sought shelter at the court of Marguerite de Navarre in Angoulême. Marguerite, who was Anne's cousin, was a Huguenot.
A large portion of the population died in massacres or were deported from French territory following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Today, the Huguenots number about one million, or about two percent of the population; They are most concentrated in southeastern France and the Cévennes region in the south.
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Through the efforts of the Prince of Beauvau, the dozen or so women held there were finally released in 1767. [ 14 ] In the decades following 1724, enthusiasm for the persecution of Protestants continued to wane; after 1764 they "enjoyed a practical toleration for a quarter of a century before the law secured them a legal toleration" [ 15 ] by ...