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The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787 : the Enlightenment Debate on Toleration.
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 Pro...
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Waterloo :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. The Edict of Fontainebleau: The Rationalization of Intolerance; II. Thunderous Applause, Discreet Dissent: The Intellectual Reaction to the Revocation; III. A Three-way Impasse: The Huguenots, The Clergy and the State; IV. An Abstract Combat: Voltaire's First Battles Against Intolerance, 1713-1750; V. Montesquieu and the Huguenots: A Conservative's View of Minority Rights; VI. A Friend in the Enemy Camp: The Abbe Prevost; VII. Controller-General Machault Provokes a Public Debate on Huguenot Rights, 1751-1760.