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Author Garrioch, David

Title The Huguenots of Paris and the coming of religious freedom, 1685-1789 / David Garrioch
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Contents Cover; The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom, 1685-1789; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on terminology; 1 The campaign against the Protestants; Official policy before 1685; The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; The impact of the persecution; 2 Paris: 'ville de tolérance'; The Revocation and its aftermath: selective enforcement; Official motives; Towards de facto toleration; Towards official acceptance; The price of 'tolérance'; 3 Who were the Huguenots of Paris?; Place of birth; Occupation
Distribution within Paris4 Keeping the faith: family and religious culture; Theology and practice; Household and family culture; Closed households; 5 Networks: the Protestants in the city; Family and occupational clusters; Provincial and international networks; The integration of networks; The role of the foreign chapels; 6 Catholics and Protestants: hostility, indifference and coexistence; The seventeenth-century background; The eighteenth century; The Catholic clergy; 7 Growing acceptance; Catholic collective memory: the Huguenots as innocent victims; 1789 and the Revolution
8 Changing beliefs and religious culturesCatholic reform and Jansenism; Enlightened Catholicism; A common enemy; 9 A non-confessional public domain; A Catholic public domain; Secularisation; Public identities; 10 Conclusion: the coming of religious freedom; Select bibliography; Principal manuscript sources; Archives nationales; Archives de Paris; Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal; bibliothèque nationale; Bibliothèque de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français; Leiden University Library; Published primary sources; Secondary sources; Index
Summary How did the Huguenots of Paris survive, and even prosper, in the eighteenth century when the majority Catholic population was notorious for its hostility to Protestantism? Why, by the end of the Old Regime, did public opinion overwhelmingly favour giving Huguenots greater rights? This study of the growth of religious toleration in Paris traces the specific history of the Huguenots after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. David Garrioch identifies the roots of this transformation of attitudes towards the minority Huguenot population in their own methods of resistance to persecution and pragmatic government responses to it, as well as in the particular environment of Paris. Above all, this book identifies the extraordinary shift in Catholic religious culture that took place over the century as a significant cause of change, set against the backdrop of cultural and intellectual transformation that we call the Enlightenment-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Huguenots -- France -- Paris -- History -- 17th century
Huguenots -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Freedom of religion -- History -- 17th century
Freedom of religion -- History -- 18th century
Church history -- 17th century.
Church history -- 18th century.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant.
Church history
Freedom of religion
Huguenots
France -- Paris
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107784567
1107784565
9781107252769
1107252768