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.
India in the French Imagination
Author: Kate Marsh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317313836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317313836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, citoyen de Geneve, a Christophe de Beaumont, archevêque de Paris, duc de St. Cloud, pair de France, commandeur de l'ordre du St. Esprit, proviseur de sorbonne, &c
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : fr
Pages : 321
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : fr
Pages : 321
Book Description
Lettres écrites d la montagne
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 321
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 321
Book Description
Présence de Saussure
Author: René Amacker
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600055697
Category : Semiotics
Languages : fr
Pages : 284
Book Description
Dépouillé partiellement dans la présente bibliographie.
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600055697
Category : Semiotics
Languages : fr
Pages : 284
Book Description
Dépouillé partiellement dans la présente bibliographie.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
J.Jacques Rousseau, citoyen de Genève, à Christophe de Beaumont, archevêque de Paris, duc de S. Cloud, pair de France, commandeur de l'Ordre du Saint Esprit, proviseur de Sorbonne, etc
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 184
Book Description