Author: Geoffrey Adams
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889209049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers by leading thinkers such as Montesquieu, the abbé Prévost, and Voltaire. By the middle years of the eighteenth century, liberal clerics, lawyers, and government ministers joined Encyclopedists in urging the emancipation of the Reformed who were seen to be loyal, peaceable and productive. Then, in 1787, thanks to intensive lobbying by a group which included Malesherbes, Lafayette, and the future revolutionary Rabaut Saint-Étienne, the government of Louis XVI issued an edict of toleration which granted the Huguenots a modest bill of civil and religious rights. Adams’ illuminating work treats a major chapter in the history of toleration; it explores in depth a fascinating shift in mentalités, and it offers a new focus on the process of “reform from above” in pre-Revolutionary France.
The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787
Author: Geoffrey Adams
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889209049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers by leading thinkers such as Montesquieu, the abbé Prévost, and Voltaire. By the middle years of the eighteenth century, liberal clerics, lawyers, and government ministers joined Encyclopedists in urging the emancipation of the Reformed who were seen to be loyal, peaceable and productive. Then, in 1787, thanks to intensive lobbying by a group which included Malesherbes, Lafayette, and the future revolutionary Rabaut Saint-Étienne, the government of Louis XVI issued an edict of toleration which granted the Huguenots a modest bill of civil and religious rights. Adams’ illuminating work treats a major chapter in the history of toleration; it explores in depth a fascinating shift in mentalités, and it offers a new focus on the process of “reform from above” in pre-Revolutionary France.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889209049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers by leading thinkers such as Montesquieu, the abbé Prévost, and Voltaire. By the middle years of the eighteenth century, liberal clerics, lawyers, and government ministers joined Encyclopedists in urging the emancipation of the Reformed who were seen to be loyal, peaceable and productive. Then, in 1787, thanks to intensive lobbying by a group which included Malesherbes, Lafayette, and the future revolutionary Rabaut Saint-Étienne, the government of Louis XVI issued an edict of toleration which granted the Huguenots a modest bill of civil and religious rights. Adams’ illuminating work treats a major chapter in the history of toleration; it explores in depth a fascinating shift in mentalités, and it offers a new focus on the process of “reform from above” in pre-Revolutionary France.
The Complete Works of Voltaire
Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Arctic Bibliography
The complete works of Voltaire: Correspondence
Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 584
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 584
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A - B.
Mandement de Mgr. l'archevêque de Paris, portant condamnation d'un livre qui a pour titre: Bélisaire, par M. Marmontel
Mandement de Monseigneur l'archevêque de Paris, Portant condamnation d'un livre qui a pour titre: Bélisaire,
Author: Christophe de Beaumont
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Mandement de monseigneur l'archevêque de Paris, portant condamnation d'un livre qui a pour titre:
Author: Jean Franc̦ois Marmontel
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
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Mandement de Monseigneur l'archevêque de Paris, portant condamnation d'un livre qui a pour titre, De l'esprit
Author: Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Paris (France). Archbishop (1746-1781 : Beaumont)
Publisher:
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Category : Authority
Languages : fr
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authority
Languages : fr
Pages : 32
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