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20th International Meeting of Huguenot Descendants

A meeting organised in Dijon and Burgundy from 22 to 28 September 2025.

37th Protestant Museum colloquium

This 31st European meeting will take place at the Musée du Protestantisme, de la Réforme et de laïcité (Ferrières, Tarn), from April 24 to 28, 2025.

Protest’en livres Strasbourg: 500 years of Anabaptism

The Calvin bookshop and the Stift Protestant media library are organizing a day to commemorate the birth of Anabaptism in 1525. Saturday, March 29, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Protestant Media Library.

Conference: Albert Schweitzer as seen by his contemporaries

By Mathieu Arnold, Professor of the History of Christianity, Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Strasbourg. 22 March 2025 from 5pm to 6pm SHPF, 54 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 7e.

Indiennes et toile de Jouy, l’histoire file un bon coton

A programme from the Radio France podcast ‘Textiles, une histoire étoffée’ on 21 January 2025.

Virtual exhibition – ‘Coexistence: Catholics x Protestants in the Deux-Sèvres (1517-1905)’.

The exhibition closed on 24 January 2025. The Archives départementales des Deux-Sèvres invite you to (re)discover it thanks to its virtual version, which you can consult wherever you are (link in the article).

The Reformation in three minutes

Discover our video on the origin of the Protestant Reformation.

The Legacy of Huguenots in New York

Following the Wars of Religion in the second half of the 16th century, Protestants from the kingdom of France, then known as Huguenots, fled persecution and found refuge abroad, particularly in North America. In New York, their influence was significant, and the city retains important traces of this immigration.

Presentation of the Museum

Press Release – 26th May 2014 Welcome to the virtual museum of Protestantism History of the museum Created in 2003 by the Fondation pasteur Eugène Bersier, with the assistance of the Historical Society of French Protestantism, the virtual museum of Protestantism [...]

Museum contributors and partners

Comité scientifique : Céline Borello, Hubert Bost, Gabrielle Cadier, Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard, Frédéric Chavel, André Encrevé, Philippe Kabongo M’Baya, Pierre-Olivier Lechot, Olivier Millet, Jane Stranz, Valentine Zuber.

The Fondation Bersier

The Fondation pasteur Eugène Bersier is a Protestant foundation recognized to be of public interest by decree dated July 3, 1990. It was founded by Maurice Gontier who served as its president from 1990 to 2001. It is a member of the Protestant Federation of France. Its goal is to promote knowledge [...]

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Support us If you wish to contribute to the campaigns managed or supported by the Fondation pasteur Eugène Bersier, your donations and bequests may be eligible for tax breaks under the current laws concerning donations and bequests to charitable organizations of recognized public interest. [...]