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Looting of a church during the Revolution, by Swebach-Desfontaines (c. 1793). The aim of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France during the French Revolution ranged from the appropriation by the government of the great landed estates and the large amounts of money held by the Catholic Church to the termination of Christian religious practice and of the religion ...
Initially he sought to convert Protestants to Catholicism through peaceful means, including financial incentives, but gradually he adopted harsher measures, culminating in the use of dragonnades, soldiers stationed in the homes of Protestants to force them to convert. In 1685, he revoked the Edict of Nantes altogether, abolishing all rights of ...
During the reign of Mary I (1553–1558) they were expelled but, with the accession of Elizabeth I, returned to London in 1559 and Kent in 1561. [93] An early group of Huguenots settled in Colchester in 1565. [94] [95] There was a small naval Anglo-French War (1627–1629), in which the English supported the French Huguenots against King Louis ...
The French general and statesman responsible for the concordat, Napoleon Bonaparte, had a generally favourable attitude towards Protestants, and the concordat did not make Catholicism the state religion again. [1] In April 1802, Bonaparte unilaterally promulgated the Organic Articles, a law designed to implement the terms of the concordat.
Another European war, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), known in North America as the French and Indian War (1754–1763), precipitated the decline of French power in the New World (events ...
Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the neighbouring Vaunage in southern France.In the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal.
According to a 2020 survey, Protestants made up 3% of the French population. [2] A renewed interest in Protestantism has been brought by numerous Evangelical Protestants, while the membership of Calvinist and Lutheran churches has stagnated; many of the latter two confessions have merged into the United Protestant Church of France.
Thomas Henry Barclay, American Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and pre-Confederation Nova Scotian politician. [446] Antoine Barnave (1761–1783), French revolutionary, tried to establish a French constitutional monarchy, member of the Feuillants. [693]