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Article: The dawn of the age of toleration: Samuel Pufendorf and the road not taken.
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- Journal of Church and State
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- March 22, 2008
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It was the last gasp of the ancient regime of privileged tolerance. When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, he did what generations of kings, emperors and princes had done for millennia before him--either grant or revoke the right of their subjects to freely practice and worship their religion. The French Huguenots had existed under the Edict's parsimonious protections since 1598. Overnight, however, the Edictbanned French protestant worship, its churches ordered destroyed, its pastors exiled, and its members dispossessed or worse. Despite order-s that Protestant lay people should not leave the country, about 200,000 fled France. The resulting diaspora enriched ...
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