The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787 by Geoffrey Adams - 9780889202092

Name: The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787 by Geoffrey Adams - 9780889202092
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787The Enlightenment Debate on Toleration\nAuthor(s): Geoffrey Adams\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canada\nImprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press\nISBN-13: 9780889202092, 978-0889202092\nSynopsis\nThe decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers by leading thinkers such as Montesquieu, the abb Prvost, and Voltaire. By the middle years of the eighteenth century, liberal clerics, lawyers, and government ministers joined Encyclopedists in urging the emancipation of the Reformed who were seen to be loyal, peaceable and productive. Then, in 1787, thanks to intensive lobbying by a group which included Malesherbes, Lafa.