The Huguenots of Paris and the coming of religious freedom, 1685-1789 /
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 g...
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New York :
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Table of 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
