The first protestant Church was in Meaux. It was only from 1555 onwards that other Churches were set up in different parts of France, notably in Paris, Angers ...

Protestants were granted a degree of religious freedom following the Edict of Nantes, but it ceased with the Edict of Fontainebleau. The Protestant minority was ... Major groups · Lutherans · History · Reformation in France

Many reformed churches were created in France. Calvinist catechism and discipline brought about a new kind of person: a Protestant person.

The Huguenots are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived ...

30 окт. 2024 г. · The ground was better prepared for the reform of the church in France than in Germany because of the efforts of the Catholic scholar Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.

By the 1560s, perhaps 1,250 churches were serving an adult population of 2 million so-called 'Huguenots', about 10 per cent of the total population of the State ...

Protestant pastors, trained in Geneva, infiltrated the country; by 1562 there were some 2,000 highly organized Calvinist churches in France. Calvinism provided ...

In the 1680s Protestants in certain parts of France were deliberately terrorised by the billeting of unruly troops in their homes ['the Dragonnades']. Finally, ...

Starting in the 1660s, Louis XIV instated a policy to convert Protestants throughout the kingdom to Catholicism. This was accomplished through missionary work ...

16 мар. 2018 г. · Huguenots were French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of theologian John Calvin.