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Louis XIV claimed that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 900,000 or 800,000 adherents to just 1,000 or 1,500. He exaggerated the decline, but the dragonnades were devastating for the French Protestant community. The exodus of Huguenots from France created a brain drain, as many of them had occupied important places in society.
In 1685, he revoked the Edict of Nantes altogether, abolishing all rights of Protestants in the kingdom. Under this duress, many Protestants converted to Catholicism; others fled the country. Those who converted, however, usually did so only outwardly as crypto-Protestants , also called Nicodemites .
The Edict of Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted Huguenots the right to practice their religion without state persecution.
On 22 October 1685, King Louis XIV of France issued the Edict of Fontainebleau, which was part of a program of persecution that closed Huguenot churches and schools. This policy escalated the harassment of religious minorities since the dragonnades were created in 1681 in order to intimidate Huguenots into converting to Catholicism.
In 1572 these congregations united and in 1573 the community was visited by the Queen. Around this time, the Huguenot population of Sandwich grew to comprise almost a third of the town's overall population. [10] [11] A small number of Huguenot gardeners moved to Wandsworth, Battersea, and Bermondsey to be closer to London. [12]
Areas controlled and contested by Huguenots are marked purple and blue on this map of modern France. The Huguenot rebellions, sometimes called the Rohan Wars after the Huguenot leader Henri de Rohan, were a series of rebellions of the 1620s in which French Calvinist Protestants (Huguenots), mainly located in southwestern France, revolted against royal authority.
Mazel returned to his home country in 1709 to lead a new British-backed insurrection. A hundred men with Mazel at their helm, told France to restore the edict of Nantes and free Camisard prisoners who had been captured during the war. The revolt was crushed by French authorities. [citation needed] Mazel refused to stop fighting for the Huguenot ...
Sutherland, Nicola M. "The Crown, the Huguenots, and the Edict of Nantes." in The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina (Springer, Dordrecht, 1988) pp. 28–48. [ISBN missing] Sutherland, Nicola Mary. "The Huguenots and the Edict of Nantes 1598–1629."