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Michel Péronnet, « Les Assemblées du clergé et les protestants », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1985.1539
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Michel Peronnet : The «assemblées du clergé de France » and the protestants. The Assemblies of the French Clergy, which met every five years, represented bishops and part of the lower clergy ; their main aim was to vote a tax known as the ' don gratuit ' (' gratuit ' meaning voluntary). Sometimes the bishops sent petitions to the King, asking for his intervention in religious matters ; some of these concerned the ' nouveaux Catholiques ' (i.e. former Protestants). The bishops demanded the application of the King's rulings against Protestants ; they wanted him to give orders to judges, the police and landlords to force the Huguenots to obey the law. In 1788, the bishops published a remontrance very critical of the King's policy concerning the ' non-Catholics '. From the 16th to the end of the 18th Century, the bishops insisted that Protestants were heretics who had to be condemned for disobeying the King and for ' lèse-majesté