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Magistrate of the city of Westminster, from a family of french protestants, he was torn from his home in Caen in Normandy, France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Babo
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- The Edict of Nantes.
- When Henry of Navarre was made king of France he found it politically necessary to abjure his Huguenot faith and turn Catholic. But he never forgot his old allegiance to the Reformed religion, and strove in every way to give his former comrades their just rights as citizens of France. On the thirteenth of April, 1598, he set his name to “a perpetual and irrevocable edict,” known as the Edict of Nantes, which granted liberty of conscience to all Frenchmen. It restored to the Huguenots their full civil rights and gave them the freedom to worship God unmolested by priests or bigots . It was one of the most glorious steps towards human liberty that has ever been taken, and had its solemn promises been adhered to by Henry’s royal successors, France would have been spared some of the blackest and most unfortunate passages in her history. Louis XIV But after the death of Henry IV, the beneficent provisions of the edict were one by one rendered inoperative,and the old round of petty and cruel persecutions was resumed. We must pass over these unhappy years until we come to the crowning act of despotism which marked the career of Roman Catholic intolerance,the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In 1685 Louis XIV utterly destroyed the few remaining liberties of his Protestant subjects by breaking the solemn promises made to them by Henry IV.
The French Blood in America. Lucien Fosdick, New York, Baker and Taylor Co. 1911
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