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Article: Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion. By Philip Conner. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. Pp. xiv, 257. $84.95.)
Histories of the Reformation in France usually focus on what took place in Paris and northern France, but overlook events in the South. A more balanced presentation, argues Philip Conner, should also detail the powerful inroads of Protestantism in Languedoc, Guyenne, and elsewhere in the French Midi. The author easily demonstrates that Calvinism was alive and well in places like La Rochelle, Nimes, Montpellier, and especially Montauban even after the horrors of the St. Bartholomew's Day ...