The Reformed Academies in the XVIth and XVIIth 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...
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...
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.
The last religious wars (1621-1629)
Under Louis XIII, in the wake of the Béarn case, the Protestants rebelled against the king. After their defeat, they lost their political assemblies and their strongholds and as a...
The Reformed Church and the king (1630-1660)
Why was the Protestant reaction to the oppressive methods used by Louis XIV so timid ? The explanation can be mostly found in their idolatrous submission to the king.
The Protestant resistance (1661-1700)
The Protestants were prisoners of their own loyalty to the King. This is why they showed little resistance to the restrictive measures taken against them by Louis XIV.
The Cimade
The association was founded in 1939 to help displaced people and still continues to aid refugees from all over the world and to defend their rights.
The Catholic re-conquest (1600-1660)
Due to the Trente Council, the Catholic Church gathered strength and launched a campaign of peaceful re-conquest meant to prevail over the Protestant “heresy”. It resorted to three different means :...
The Edict of rigour (1661-1685)
While the Catholic clergy launched missions for the conversion of Protestants, Louis XIV set up a policy that restricted the scope of the Edict of Nantes and then launched a...
Legal harassment (1661-1685)
Under pressure from the clergy, and so as to force Protestants to conversion, Louis XIV implemented the Edict of Nantes in a more and more restricted way. Hence the term...
The conversion policy (1660-1685)
While the edict was “rigorously” enforced, the Catholic Church used peaceful means to prompt Protestants to convert. These included the proposal of financial means.
The Protestant education in the 16th century
Secular and religious education was a priority for Reformers. All over Europe new schools and catechisms appeared in the wake of the Reformation.