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...
Strasbourg
The Lower Rhine
The Upper-Rhine
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.
Jeanne d’Albret Museum, the history of Protestantism in Béarn
Pierre-Antoine Labouchère (1807-1873)
Labouchère was descended from a protestant family who emigrated to the Netherlands. His loyalty to the faith of his ancestors prompted him to devote many of his paintings to the...
Albert Schweitzer’s House in Gunsbach
Samuel Bastide (1879-1962)
A painter and orator dedicated to keeping alive the history of Protestantism at the time of the Désert.
A seeming lull (1630-1660)
After the Alès peace treaty, Richelieu tried to get the Protestants back into the Catholic Church. Under the rule of Mazarin, because of the necessities of France’s foreign policy and...
Protestantism under the rule of the Edict of Nantes
The Edict of Nantes, granting the French Protestants freedom lasted nearly a century. But it was gradually torn apart first when political and military privileges were removed, then when their...
The enforcement of the Edict of Nantes until 1610
After the Edict of Nantes, France enjoyed a period of peace. Henry IV overviewed the implementation of the Edict which protected the Protestants but curbed their expansion.