Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559 1685
Mentzer, Raymond A. / Raymond a., Mentzer / Spicer, Andrew
The Huguenots formed a privileged minority within early modern France. During the second half of the sixteenth century, they fought for freedom of worship in the French ‘, wars of religion’, which culminated in the Edict of Nantes in 1598. The community was protected by the terms of the Edict for eighty-seven years until Louis XIV revoked it in 1685. The Huguenots therefore constitute a minority group tolerated by one of the stronges...