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The House of Protestantism in Charentes

The House of Protestantism in Charentes was created in 1994 and it was set up as a memorial to the history of Protestantism in Aunis and Saintonge.

Civil and religious buildings turned into Temples after the Revolution

The nationalisation of clergy estates during the Revolution, and the disbanding of monastic communities left many churches, monasteries and abbeys unused.

Aquitaine

Burgundy

Midi-Pyrénées

Temples in Paris

In Paris as in many other cities in France, former places of Catholic worship which had become national property at the Revolution, were turned over to Protestant worship.

Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône)

Rhône-Alpes

Uzès et ses environs

The Vaunage and Vistrenque regions

In the triangle between Nîmes, Sommières and Lunel, the Protestant memory is at its height. As early as 1580, in the Vaunage and Vistrenque together, three-fourths of the small towns...

Aigues-Mortes

Strasbourg

The Lower Rhine

The Upper-Rhine

Mulhouse, from the time of the Reformation until its union with France

Mulhouse was a Reformed town in Alsace, which was Lutheran. It was also associated with the Swiss Protestant Cantons. It was a conservative town and due to its position of...

Saint-Germain-en-Laye et Poissy

Fontainebleau

The reactions in France and abroad

The Edict of Fontainebleau was largely accepted in France whereas the international response was reserved, if not shocked.

The Reformed Academies in the XVI^th and XVII^th centuries

As early as 1565, the synods of the Reformed Churches undertook the training of pastors, encouraging churches to open colleges (a prerequisite for higher education) and universities or “academies” (after...

Jeanne d’Albret Museum, the history of Protestantism in Béarn