2005
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Hubert Bost, « Théories et pratiques politiques des protestants français de la Réforme à la Révolution », Caliban, ID : 10.3406/calib.2005.1529
The relation to the political authority as experienced by the French protestants of the old regime is presented through their theoretical speeches and their religious observances ; the dialectical tension in these is articulated around two semantic poles — theological and political — that of submission ("Obey the authorities"), that of resistance ("It is better to obey God than men"). The history of it is punctuated by three crucial dates : 1598 the Edict of Nantes ; 1685, the Edict of Fontainebleau or the Repeal of the Edict of Nantes ; 1787, the Edict of the non-Catholics, also referred to as the Edict of Tolerance ; it tries to take into consideration what has led to or followed upon each of the successive edicts promulgated by Henry IV, Louis XIV and Louis XVI.