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Since the Huguenots had political and religious goals, it was commonplace to refer to the Calvinists as "Huguenots of religion" and those who opposed the monarchy as "Huguenots of the state", who were mostly nobles. [39] The Huguenots of religion were influenced by John Calvin's works and established Calvinist synods. They were determined to ...
They often lived as nomads in wilderness areas in order to avoid capture. Historians estimate that the number of men and women imprisoned or sent to the galleys for religious offences in the 40 years following the edict of 1724 was almost two thousand. [10] According to Antoine Court, eight ministers were executed in this period. [11]
The Edict of Nantes had been issued on 13 April 1598 by Henry IV of France and granted the Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the predominantly-Catholic state. Henry aimed at promoting civil unity by the edict. [3] The edict treated some Protestants with tolerance and opened a path for secularism.
in Huguenots in Britain and their French Background, 1550–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1987) pp. 158–174. [ISBN missing] Treasure, Geoffrey. The Huguenots (Yale UP, 2015) [ISBN missing] Tylor, Charles. The Huguenots in the Seventeenth Century: Including the History of the Edict of Nantes, from Its Enactment in 1598 to Its Revocation in 1685 (1892)
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]
The city suffered terrible famine and the population was reduced to eating rats, leather, and ground slate. There were even isolated reports of cannibalism. [1] Some 500 people, including most of the children, died. [citation needed] The siege was compared to the siege of Jerusalem and became a Protestant cause throughout Europe.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss writer, philosopher, social and educational theorist, descended from Huguenot wine merchant, Didier Rousseau, Jean-Jacques converted to an unorthodox form of Calvinism himself, [671] rejecting original sin and some other key tenets of mainstream Calvinist faith. [672] [673] Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Cardinal of Lorraine had asked whether the Calvinists were prepared to sign the Confession of Augsburg, a matter of dissension between them and the Lutheran Protestants. The committee drafted a vague formula which could be interpreted in a Catholic or a Calvinistic sense, and was consequently condemned by both parties. [ 2 ]