Henri Lindegaard (1925-1996)
He was a pastor and a painter, and was one of the Protestant artists who took part in passing on the faith.
Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741–1825)
Füssli was a painter of the uncanny. He was of Swiss origin but an adoptive Londoner. He was inspired by various literary sources which he reinterpreted with his imagination. Füssli...
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923)
Steinlen was an emblematic artist of the late 19th century in Montmartre. He also drew, painted, illustrated, designed posters, and sculpted and had anarchist leanings. He preferred drawing and pastel...
André Chamson (1900-1983)
André Chamson was a writer inspired by his native Cévennes region and by his ancestors’ Huguenot history, but also a steadfast resistant who kept his humanistic convictions unshakable throughout his...
Wars of Religion in 6 minutes
Protestantism developed in France from 1517 onwards. The number of Protestants rapidly increased; many nobles converted and formed a powerful party. And the majority Catholicism felt challenged.
Luther vu dans l’histoire
La figure de Luther fait l’objet, depuis la Réforme, de commentaires et d’analyses historiques.
Oscar Cullmann (1902-1999)
Oscar Cullmann was one of the great Protestant theologians of the 20th century. He was a specialist of the New Testament and took an active part in ecumenical dialogue with...
Mort de Jan Hus
Jan Hus (1369-1415), Czech priest convicted of heresy, died at the stake. He preached the reform of the Church and the return to evangelical poverty. This pre-reformer strongly influenced Martin...
Jerome of Prague (about 1379-1416)
He defended the ideas of John Wycliff, was a philosopher and pre-Reformer, a follower and friend of Jan Hus (1369-1415). Like him he was condemned by the council of Constance...
Reforms : theological debates
The desire to reform the Church was very widespread in Europe in the 16th century, but there was no agreement on what changes to promote: how to reform, how far?...
Western Christianity at the beginning of the 16th century
At the beginning of the 16th century, elements are in mouvement that will break up Christian unity in the West and institute a new relationship with God set against a...
The Hottinguer bank
This banking institution was founded in France in the late 18th century, and the Hottinguer bank contributed to French economic and industrial development throughout the 19th century. It is the...
The Reformation in 3 minutes (video)
In 16th-century Europe, a group of people criticised the Catholic Church – they were called Protestants – and created a different church, called the “Reformed” church. Hence the expression “Protestant...
The Renaissance
A new spirit, a new form, a new outlook, new horizons: those of man’s greatness and happiness.
Emigration
Emigration reached its peak in the aftermath of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. It had already begun in the first years of Louis the XIV’s reign...
