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Article: La Rochelle; the Huguenots. (anniversary of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 9, 1985
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1985 is replete with famous tercentenaries. One of them is the three-hundredth anniversary of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, whereby Louis XIV expelled 200,000 Protestant Huguenots from the confines of France. They fled to Holland, England, and other parts of Europe, and many of them eventually made their way to America. The original Edict of Nantes had been promulgated almost one hundred years before by Henri IV, a Protestant prince who converted to Catholicism in order to become king ("Paris, he said, "is well worth a Mass"). In the ensuing century, diligent French Protestants, who were and remain mainstream ...