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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army, which was born and created in England, settled in France in 1881. Its aims were to evangelize and to provide the lower classes with social help.
Famille protestante lisant la bible et chantant, vue au XIXe siècle

The role played by protestant women in society from the XVIth to the XIXth centuries

From the very beginning, women took advantage of the new ideas spread by the Reform movement to rethink their role within the family, the Church and society. Indeed, it was...
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The World Huguenot Center

The comité was founded in 1915, with the aim of promulgating information about French Protestantism throughout the world and creating links between Protestants in France and the countries where the...
Les Églises Réformées au XVI<sup>e</sup> siècle

The Reformation established in France

As everywhere in Europe, the desire for a reform of the Church was widespread throughout the whole of France. This is why scholars so readily welcomed Luther’s ideas.
Charles Wagner

Progress towards unity

At the beginning of the 20th century, the need for unity was felt by different churches, and eventually led to the foundation of the Fédération protestante de France in 1905.
Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740-1826)

Protestantism in Alsace in 19th century

In Alsace the numerous Lutheran community, as well as the predominant reformed one in Mulhouse, were to be submitted to the same requirements as the reformed churches “inland”. But the...
Un culte missionnaire il y a un siècle

The missionary movement

The missionary fervour of the Protestant Church arose in the nineteenth century. The first mission was in a country under the British rule and later on in countries that were...
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The first missions

The first Protestant missions were established in South-Africa, where the beginning of the 19th century saw some major political transformations.
Eugène Casalis

Organization of the missionary movement

Even though the House of Missions was closed for a short period during the 1848 revolution and the 1870 war, missionary enthusiasm spread in France in different ways.
Marché d'esclaves à Mascate en 1849

The abolition of slavery

In the nineteenth century, slavery became incompatible with the major political (human rights), economic (legitimate trade) and theological (evangelization) currents. Slavery, even though re-established by Napoleon, it was permanently made...
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The deaconesses of Reuilly

The community of the deaconesses of Reuilly came into being in 1841 and was established in the rue de Reuilly in the XIIth arrondissement in Paris in 1844, which is...
Atelier de montage de pièces de moteur Peugeot, Audincourt

Protestants and economic life

Soon after the Reformation, Protestants became involved in collective and public responsibilities with a significant impact on both university and economic life.
Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552-1630)

A wide range of destinies

The XVIth century produced numerous Reformed people who became well-known in different fields.
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The Peugeot family

Since the XVIIth century, the Peugeot family – a Lutheran family from the Montbéliard district – has contributed to the economic growth and social development of France by building an industrial empire...
Famille protestante lisant la bible et chantant, vue au XIXe siècle

On being a Protestant in 16th century in France

During the second half of the 16th century, many reformed churches were created in France. Calvinist catechism and discipline brought about a new kind of person: a Protestant person.
Henri Pyt (1796-1835)

Pietist and Methodist influences in 19th century in France

There is no doubt that the Revival movements had an enormous impact on the awakening of the French Protestant Church in the second half of the 19th century. Their presence...
Révocation de l'édit de Nantes (médaille)

Médaille et histoire métallique au XVIIe siècle

La médaille retenue par les historiens de l’art comme un aspect mineur de la sculpture, est un témoin privilégié et immuable de l’histoire.

Several models of Reformation

In itself, the Reformation appeared everywhere. Everywhere, in France, in Switzerland, it was indigenous, a fruit of the land and of various circumstances that, nevertheless,  produced similar fruit.
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The Montauban Faculty of Theology in the 19th century

The faculty was founded in 1808-1810 and trained the majority of the Reformed Church pastors. After a somewhat tentative beginning, studies were reorganized by a decree initiated by Baron Cuvier...
Madame de Staël (1766-1817)

Germaine de Staël (1766-1817)

Germaine de Staël was a major figure of the pre-romantic period and was herself already a true romantic in outlook. Due to her political standpoint she had to flee several...