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400th anniversary of the siege of Mas d’Azil

Conference on the 400th anniversary of the siege of Le Mas d'Azil in 1625, on 27 September 2025 from 9am to 6pm at the Espace Multimédia in Le Mas d'Azil (09), 4 rue du Temple.

Agnès Varda’s Paris

At the Musée Carnavalet from 9 April to 24 August 2025, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm.

20th International Meeting of Huguenot Descendants

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

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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