The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes) was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was in essence completely Catholic.In the edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity. The edict separated civil from religious unity, treated some Protestants for the first …

The Edict of Fontainebleau (22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.The Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted Huguenots the right to practice their religion without state persecution. Protestants had lost their independence in places of refuge under Cardinal Richelieu on account of their …

The Edict of 1635 was written to the two commissioners of Nagasaki, a port city located in southwestern Japan. Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), by Louis XIV of France. It revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598) and ordered the destruction of Huguenot churches. Sacred Edict (1670), by the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty of China.

The Edict of Saint-Germain, also known as the Edict of January, was a landmark decree of tolerance promulgated by the regent of France, Catherine de' Medici, in January 1562.The act represented the culmination of several years of slowly liberalising edicts which had begun with the 1560 Edict of Amboise.The edict provided limited tolerance to the Protestant Huguenots in the …

Nantes (/ n ɒ̃ t /, US also / n ɑː n t (s)/, French: (); Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt; Breton: Naoned) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast.The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2018). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes ...

L’édit de Nantes est un édit de tolérance promulgué en avril 1598 par le roi de France Henri IV [1], pour mettre fin aux guerres de Religion qui ravageaient le royaume de France depuis 1562, et particulièrement à la huitième guerre, commencée en 1585. Cet édit accorde aux protestants des droits religieux, civils et politiques dans certaines parties du royaume et, dans des annexes ...

After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the Dutch Republic received the largest group of Huguenot refugees, an estimated total of 75,000 to 100,000 people. Amongst them were 200 pastors. Most came from northern France (Brittany, Normandy, and Picardy, as well as West Flanders (subsequently French Flanders), which had been annexed from the Southern …

Nantes kreeg in 1560 stadsrechten van Frans II en steunde de katholieke partij in de godsdienstoorlogen (1562-1598) die eindigden met de uitvaardiging van het edict van Nantes door Hendrik IV.Dit edict hield een beperkte godsdienstvrijheid voor protestanten in. In de eerste helft van de 18e eeuw was Nantes zelfs de belangrijkste havenstad van Frankrijk, toen de …

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign in history whose date is verifiable. Although Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the age of …

Het huidige grondgebied van Frankrijk is al minstens enkele tienduizenden jaren bewoond. Opgravingen hebben zelfs overblijfselen van Homo heidelbergensis, neanderthalers en vroege moderne mensen uit het paleolithicum aan het licht gebracht. Vooral het huidige departement Dordogne is rijk aan prehistorische vindplaatsen. Grotschilderingen zoals die van de cro …