A Protestant Theology School in Paris
For the first time, a Protestant theology school was established in Paris. It was the convergence of two movements: the desire to establish theology instruction in Paris and the arrival...
Synod of the Reformed Church of Paris
This was the first national synod since the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). This synod marked a break with the orthodox and liberal currents of reformed Protestantism in...
Creation of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society
On November 4, the bylaws of the Missionary Society, whose aim is to “spread the Gospel among heathens.” This was a revival movement, whose founding members were of various nationalities....
The Organic articles as addition to the Concordat
On September 18, 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte signed the Concordat with the Pope. On April 8, 1802, he promulgated the Organic Articles that organize the life of the Catholic Church and...
Freedom of worship
Religious freedom is not synonymous with freedom of worship: collective practice, with possible outside events that might disrupt the peace. The 1791 Constitution established freedom of worship, which had to...
Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
At the start of the French Revolution, in August 1789, the National Assembly ratified the Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen, whose article 10 proclaims that...
Edict of Tolerance
Two years before the Revolution, Louis XVI re-established the civil rights of Protestants when he promulgated the Edict of Tolerance on November 29, 1787. They could have their births, their...
The Calas affair
Jean Calas, a Protestant merchant from Toulouse, was sentenced by the Toulouse Parliament to torture on the wheel and was executed on March 10, 1762, on the unsubstantiated accusation of...
Creation of the Lausanne Seminary
Antoine Court and Benjamin Duplan founded the Lausanne Seminary in Switzerland. All Protestant schools had been closed since the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This institution therefore aimed to...
Start of the War of the Camisards
In 1702, The Abbot of Chaila was murdered on July 24 in Pont-de-Montvert. Repression was fierce in Languedoc in the Cévennes. A desperate armed revolt then broke out. It officially...
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Decided by Louis XIV, this revocation on October 22, 1685 led to the increased repression of Protestants (death sentences and sentences to row the galleys, forced conversion, etc.). It amplified...
First dragonnade in Poitou
Louvois sent a cavalry regiment to Poitou to go into winter quarters. The Kings quarter master, Marcillac, housed them in Huguenot homes: he allowed them to pillage and ruin their...
Treaty of Westphalia
The Thirty Years War was a political and religious war that devastated the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation in the 17th century. First a religious conflict between the...
Peace of Alès
After three religious wars, the peace of Alais deprived Protestants of safe havens, but confirmed their right to practice their religion within the framework of the Edict of Nantes. Article...
Siege of La Rochelle
This very busy port, which had become largely Protestant, represented a potential threat to the royal power and Richelieu due to the risk of an English landing. Richelieu laid siege...
Resumption of the Wars of Religion under Louis XIII
After the death of Henry IV, a new dispute arose concerning the religious and political organization of the Béarn, the king’s personal property. In 1616, things deteriorated. Three new religious...
Le Conseil national des évangéliques de France (CNEF)
Le Conseil national des évangéliques de France est créé en 2010. Il rassemble la plupart des unions d’Églises protestantes évangéliques. Certaines de ces unions d’Églises sont aussi membres de la...
Promulgation of the Edict of Nantes
Having become King of France in 1589, after converting to Catholicism, Henri IV put an end to the Wars of Religion on April 3, 1598 by promulgating the Edict of...
Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
This is the emblematic event of the French Wars of Religion. On August 24, after the marriage of Henry of Navarre (the future Henry IV) and Marguerite de Valois (daughter...