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Introduction

Edict of Nantes (fr. Edit de Nantes) - a law that granted religious rights to French Huguenot Protestants. The issuance of the edict ended the thirty-year period of the Wars of Religion in France and marked the beginning of a century of relative peace, known as the "Great Age". The edict was drawn up by order of the French king Henry IV and approved in Nantes (April 13, 1598). Abolished by Louis XIV in 1685.

1. Regulations

Edict of Nantes consisted of 93 articles and 36 secret decrees; the latter were not considered by the parliaments and were not included in their protocols. Its publication was preceded by countless complaints from the Huguenots and lengthy negotiations with them by the king. Not a single 16th-century edict Western Europe did not provide such extensive tolerance as Nantes. Subsequently, he gave reason to accuse the Huguenots of forming a state within a state.

The Edict of Nantes granted full equality to Catholics and Protestants. The first article of the edict introduced Catholic worship wherever it was discontinued. The Catholic clergy were given back all their former rights and estates. Calvinism was tolerated wherever it was before. All the nobles who held the highest judicial positions had the right to perform Calvinistic worship and to admit outsiders to it. In the castles of ordinary nobles, Protestant worship was allowed if the number of Protestants did not exceed 30 people and if the castles were not located in an area where the Catholic owners enjoyed the right of the supreme court.

In cities and villages where the Huguenots were allowed to worship until 1597, this right was restored. Calvinistic worship was formally forbidden in Paris and some cities closed to it on the basis of capitulations; but Protestants were allowed to live there. In all other places, the Huguenots could have churches, bells, schools, and hold public office. For religious reasons, it was forbidden to disinherit relatives, attack Huguenots and persuade their children to convert to Catholicism. All those sentenced to punishment for religious beliefs were pardoned.

The government pledged to help the Huguenots with subsidies for schools and churches. In addition, the Huguenots were granted a number of privileges of a political, judicial and military nature: they were allowed to convene periodic meetings (consistory, synods), keep deputies at the court to submit petitions and complaints through Sully, Morne and d’Aubigne. In Paris, a judicial chamber (Chambre de l'Edit) was established for the Protestants of Normandy and Brittany, in Castres for the Toulouse district, in Bordeaux and Grenoble - mixed chambers (Chambres miparties), for the Provence and Burgundy Provence.

The exiles were returned to their homeland. In the power of the Huguenots were left for 8 years 200 fortresses and fortified castles that belonged to them until 1597 (places de sûreté); the garrisons were kept here at the expense of the king, and the chiefs were subordinate to the Huguenots. The main fortresses were: La Rochelle, Saumur and Montauban. The Pope called the Edict of Nantes impious. The Huguenots demanded even more, interpreting the edict in terms of expanding its content.

Henry IV persuaded the parliaments with great tact to enter the edict into their minutes; only the Rouen parliament persisted until 1609. Having fastened the big edict state seal, Henry called it "eternal and irrevocable", protected it from misinterpretations, sometimes limiting it or expanding it temporarily, especially in relation to the term of the fortresses owned by the Huguenots.

2. Under Louis XIII

Under the accession of Louis XIII, the regency approved the Edict of Nantes, stating that it must be "observed inviolably." Richelieu robbed the Protestant party of its political influence, but the principle of religious tolerance remained in force.

In 1629, in Ala, after the end of the wars with the Huguenots, the Edict of Nîmes (édit de grâce) was issued, repeating the articles of the Edict of Nantes. After the death of Louis XIII, a declaration was issued (July 8, 1643) in which the Protestants were granted free and unrestricted practice of their religion and the Edict of Nantes was affirmed "as far as it turned out to be necessary." Louis XIV declared in a declaration on May 21, 1652: "I wish that the Huguenots do not cease to use the Edict of Nantes completely."

Reluctantly submitting to the Edict of Nantes, the Catholic clergy under Louis XIV tried by all means to destroy it or paralyze its significance. Religious persecution began in 1661. On October 17, 1685, Louis XIV signed the edict at Fontainebleau repealing the Edict of Nantes.

Literature

· Élie Benoit, "Histoire de l'Édit de Nantes";

· Bernard, "Explication de l'Édit de Nantes" (H., 1666);

Meynier, "De l'exécution de l'Édit de Nantes dans le Dauphiné"

When writing this article, material from the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron (1890-1907) was used.

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In the 2nd half of the XVI century. France entered a period of political crisis, the manifestation of which was religious (civil) wars, which lasted with short respite for 32 years (1562-1594). The confessional banners of these wars - Catholicism and Calvinism - hid their socio-political essence. The cause of the religious wars lay in the change political system and traditional forms of relations in society in connection with the formation of absolutism. The reason was the situation that developed in France shortly after the end of the Italian wars. Tension, oppositional sentiments associated with the strengthening of absolutism, did not manifest themselves particularly sharply while the wars were going on: the nobility largely fed on them, "restless" social elements were absorbed by military mercenaries, the townspeople and peasants hoped for an alleviation of the situation after the victory. Peace at Cateau-Cambresy (1559), which summed up the results that proved fruitless for France. By the middle of the XVI century. the consequences of the "price revolution" and the severity of the tax burden became more tangible.

First period of religious wars: 1562-1570. At this time, the struggle was not distinguished by bitterness. Both feudal factions sought to capture the king and rule in his name. Second period: 1572-1576. He was distinguished by large-scale military operations, in addition, the Huguenots and Catholics began to oppose the ruling dynasty. On the night of August 24, 1572 - the feast of St. Bartholomew - the Catholic nobles and the Parisian crowd killed several hundred Huguenots from among the Parisians and nobles who arrived in Paris from the provinces on the occasion of the marriage of Charles IX's sister Margaret of Valois and the Huguein leader Henry of Navarre.

Third period: 1580-1594. The last period of the religious wars was characterized by Henry III's search for a way out of the crisis by taking unpopular measures that exacerbated an already difficult situation, as well as the emergence of Henry of Navarre as the leader of the Huguenots on the political arena, the activation of the Catholic League and the formation of the Parisian League and, finally, the death of the king. In August 1589, he was stabbed to death by a Dominican monk, Jacques Clement, who made his way to his military camp. The period of anarchy that began was no less difficult than previous years. France was devastated by noble detachments and foreign mercenaries. Spanish King PhilipII in 1592 brought his garrison to Paris from the Netherlands. In many cities, uprisings broke out, and the peasantry also began to move. The country was on the brink of a national catastrophe. The army launched its decisive actions Henry of Navarre, in the middle of 1598, approach Paris and begin a siege, burned all the mills in the vicinity and dismantled bridges. Paris resisted for about three months: the military forces of the city outnumbered the army of Henry of Navarre. The assembly of the Catholic League continued to work in the city, the issue of succession to the throne was discussed. This circumstance prompted Henry of Navarre to decide to accept Catholicism: "Paris was worth the Mass." The solemn renunciation of Calvinism took place in July 1593 at the Cathedral of Saint-Denis, followed in February 1594 by the coronation at Chartres. Henry of Bourbon, King of Navarre, became King of France under the name HenryIV (1594-1610). The Bourbon dynasty was established on the throne. A month later, in March 1594, Henry IV entered Paris. Henry IV made the sensible decision not to pursue his opponents or confiscate their property.

Henry IV tried first of all to resolve the confessional conflict.

The guarantee of peace in post-war France was Edict of Nantes, promulgated by Henry IV in 1598. The decree declared the Gallican church as the official one. However, as a reflection domestic policy monarchy, he pursued the goal of resolving religious and political problems. The edict declared the rights to position, property, education, court, medical care. The realization of these rights for Catholics and Protestants was not the same. The edict territorially limited the rights of Protestants to worship: prayers could be performed in strictly specified places, from which Paris, all major cities and episcopal residences were excluded. Protestants could only educate their children in their own schools, colleges, and universities, which were allowed to be built in their places of worship. They could not use the hospitals, because the latter were under the auspices of the Catholic Church. Protestants were allowed to exercise their right to trial only in special chambers created under the provincial parliaments. Protestants, as subjects of the crown, were also obliged to pay church tithes in favor of the Gallican church. From a political point of view, the Edict of Nantes was intended to help strengthen local power. The crown sought to use judicial chambers replenished by proxies from among Catholics and Protestants. In addition, the universal effect of the Edict of Nantes, starting from 1598, deprived the nobility of the right to solve the confessional problem in their seigneuries at their own discretion. Henry IV made important step to the transformation of the feudal lords, who previously had such a significant privilege, into royal subjects. At the same time, Henry IV was forced to make significant concessions to the Protestants. The flexibility of his political course in the interests of peace consisted in granting the Protestants the right to preserve the fortified cities and fortifications they had occupied since the formation of the Huguenot Confederation. This right was complained of as a "royal favor" for 8 years, after which it had to be extended or canceled.

This document will be included in all textbooks of European history. In April 1598 (presumably the 30th), Henry IV of Bourbon issues an "Edict in favor of those who profess the so-called reformed religion", ending the era of religious wars between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots. The consequences of this step for France can hardly be overestimated, although, as is usually the case, the descendants bring their own meanings and their own reasons. In reality, the Edict of Nantes, given by the king for centuries, did not last even a century. He did not save the Huguenots from taking their outpost - La Rochelle by the troops of Cardinal Richelieu, and in 1685 he was completely canceled by none other than the grandson of the Huguenot King Louis XIV, who sent into exile more than a hundred thousand French Protestants. Let's take a closer look at this truly outstanding example of the wise and far-sighted policy of the founder of the Bourbon dynasty, who experienced the vicissitudes of religious strife in his own skin. Henry converted to Catholicism twice: under duress in 1572, barely surviving in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and in 1593, remaining heir to the French throne after the last Valois. Huguenot would never be crowned Catholic Church. Bourbon opted for the religion of the majority of the French, uttering the historic phrase: "Paris is worth a mass."

Original and lists

The document itself, which was an agreement between the crown and the Protestants, signed in two copies, has not survived. The Protestant copy was kept in La Rochelle and died in a fire during the capture of the fortress. The trace of the royal is lost. The text of the edict is preserved in two authentic lists of that era: one, located in the National Archives, was made for the Paris Parliament, which, after long wrangling with King Henry, ratified it in 1599 in a somewhat truncated form. Another copy, more complete, according to which we today recreate the original of the Edict of Nantes, was discovered in the Library of the city of Geneva, where many French Protestants found refuge after the abolition of the edict. The library records did not preserve the name of the person who handed over the scroll for preservation; presumably, it appeared in the archive at the beginning of the 17th century. The texts of both lists are not completely identical. There is also a discrepancy in the date of signing the edict: in some places it is indicated as April 13, in other places - April 30. By tradition, edicts - legislative acts of the personal will of the monarch were not dated. Both spices have different marks, certified by the secretaries and notaries of the kingdom. By the way, the binding of the edict to Nantes is correct, according to the French site http://www.herodote.net, only "by three quarters": the document was drawn up by a team of royal and Protestant negotiators in the city of Angers, the headquarters of the king, from where he led the suppression of the last Catholic the center of resistance to his accession to the French throne in Brittany, whose capital at that time was the city of Nantes. Having defeated the governor of Brittany, the Duke de Montcoeur, rather by force of mind than by force of arms, on April 13, Henry went to Nantes, where, as a triumphant, he hastened to repay the debt to his former co-religionists. However, history has not preserved the details of the proclamation of the edict and, contrary to tradition, it was not announced in the Nantes castle of the Dukes of Breton, as sources sometimes indicate. Perhaps the document, which could seriously anger Catholic Brittany, was signed quietly. Moreover, the second side - those in whose favor the edict was adopted - were generally dissatisfied with him, believing that they deserved much greater privileges from the monarch, who was helped in the struggle for the throne.

Affirmation of the principle of freedom of conscience

Internet sources and many popular historical works write about the "equality" between Catholics and Huguenots proclaimed in the edict. This is not true. The opening paragraphs declare that Catholicism is main religion French kingdom. Recall that during the entire XVI century - the century of religious strife - the religion of the locality and the whole province was the religion of the local feudal lord. So, the native land of Henry IV - Bearn was Protestant, because Henry's mother Jeanne d'Albret was a fierce Huguenot and - the Queen of Navarre. The edict ordered the restoration of Catholicism wherever it was thus "expelled". The persecution of the Huguenots was forbidden, but RPR (from the French "so-called reformed religion") was by no means allowed everywhere. At five largest cities, including Paris, as well as at the court itself, in the army and public education, the administration of the Protestant cult was prohibited. This could be done in strictly specified places and cases: for example, if the seigneur, holder of the judiciary, professed the RPR, in his private chapels or temples built on his possessions, in cities and villages where Protestantism was professed publicly before 1580 or in new places, which could be "the second most important city of the bayi judicial districts." In 56 "special" or "secret" articles of the Edict, specific cities and possessions and the features of their confessional affiliation were listed.

For justice to be administered and rendered to our subjects without any partiality, hatred or favor, for it is one of the most important means for maintaining peace and harmony ...

For a country recovering from almost half a century of religious wars, it is important that the edict begins with an amnesty for all those who have committed the crimes of bloodshed. However, the most important achievement of the edict, its fundamental novelty, is the gradual displacement of this territorial confessional principle by the principle of personal freedom of conscience. Henry IV did not rely on religion and not on the origin of a person, but on his usefulness to the country, his devotion to the monarch, personal qualities. The edict abolishes the ban on Huguenots from holding court and public office. The king gives an example to his subjects: his commissar of finance, the engine of economic reforms, a faithful associate of Maximilien de Sully, is a Protestant who did not change his faith after Bourbon. Protestants receive freedom to worship in matters of marriage, baptism, and burial. It is forbidden to convert children of families of one religious affiliation to another against the will of their parents. The edict forbids discrimination on the basis of religion in the admission of students to universities and the provision of services to poor houses and hospitals. More than a third of the articles of the edict regulate legal and judicial practice. Under the Paris Parliament, according to the will of the king, an "Edict Chamber" of 16 councilors should be established, where Protestants also receive their seats, to consider issues under the jurisdiction of the edict. Finally, two letters of commendation, “On Pastors” and “On Garrisons,” became an integral part of the new law. These were personal guarantees of the king to former fellow believers, signed even before the edict itself. The king allocated 45,000 ecu to maintain the pastoral corps. The charter on garrisons assigned to the Protestants the so-called "places of safety", which they held by the edict of 1570 (approximately 140 settlements). The cost of their protection and maintenance in the amount of 180,000 ecu was also covered by the treasury of His Majesty. But after eight years they were to come under the authority of the king. By the way, Louis XIII, who went to conquer La Rochelle in 1628, referred to this. According to the law of that time, the monarch had to ratify his edicts in the bodies local governments- parliaments. It was not easy for yesterday's Huguenot. During the year, Henry punched his edict: he persuaded, persuaded, threatened. But thanks to the edict, Henry IV was able to rely on "his Protestants", who threatened to leave the king without support if Spain declared war. The first Bourbon ended the internal war and the external war at the same time: 3 days after the edict, the Treaty of Vervain was signed, which stopped the Spanish Catholic intervention. The great king was able to begin the peaceful construction of a country in which, as he dreamed, "every peasant will have chicken in soup on weekends."

The Short Age of the Edict

The contemporary historian and politician Pierre Jox, who comes from a Protestant family, argues that the Edict of Nantes did not so much lay the foundations for religious pluralism as opened the way for the strengthening and centralization of royal power. At least, this is exactly what happened: both the son and grandson of Henry, despite the constant glorification of the first Bourbon, conducted their religious policy by no means in the spirit of Nantes. Louis XIII, with his powerful first minister, Cardinal Richelieu, conquered the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle. True, we must give them their due: the persecution of the Huguenots did not resume. But Louis XIV canceled the edict, by force and threats forcing every French Protestant to choose between his beliefs and property, position in society and personal security. It is characteristic that in the preamble to the document canceling the edict, the grandson of Henry IV will write that he is doing this ... as unnecessary. After all, the edict of the great grandfather was a transitional measure for the sake of the security of the kingdom, security has been restored, and all good subjects have already adopted Catholicism - and “whoever did not hide, I am not to blame” ... France lost about a hundred thousand subjects, some of whom, together with their capital, found shelter in Switzerland, which skillfully put Huguenot money into circulation. But Protestantism was not completely driven out. In the middle of the XIX century. Protestants made up about 22% of the country's population: in addition to the newly annexed Alsace, the positions of Calvinism were traditionally strong throughout the South-West - from Montpellier to Narbonne.

Despite the fact that the good intentions of the Edict of Nantes in the short term remained more like intentions, it was an unprecedented document that laid the foundations for interfaith peace and, more broadly, relations between the majority and the minority.

Sources: Pierre Joxe. L'édit de Nantes: réflexions pour un pluralisme religieux, Pluriel, Paris 2011 http://www.ville-ge.ch/bge/bibliotheque_numerique/edit-de-nantes.html

Regulations

The Edict of Nantes consisted of 93 articles and 36 secret decrees; the latter were not considered by the parliaments and were not included in their protocols. Its publication was preceded by countless complaints from the Huguenots and lengthy negotiations with them by the king. No sixteenth-century edict in Western Europe granted such extensive tolerance as that of Nantes. Subsequently, he gave reason to accuse the Huguenots of forming a state within a state.

The Edict of Nantes granted full equality to Catholics and Protestants. The first article of the edict consigned to oblivion the events of the Wars of Religion and forbade any mention of them.

I. ... the remembrance of everything that happened on either side from the beginning of March 1585 until our coronation and during the other preceding troubles will be blotted out as if nothing had happened. Neither our Attorneys General nor any other person, public or private, will ever be allowed to mention this for any reason...

- "Edict of Nantes"

The third article of the edict introduced Catholic worship wherever it was discontinued. At the same time, in cities and villages where the Huguenots were allowed to worship until 1597, this right was restored.

III. We command that the Catholic Apostolic Roman religion be restored in all places of our kingdom ... where its administration was interrupted and may it be practiced peacefully and freely without any confusion or obstacles.

In order not to give any cause for confusion and strife among our subjects, we have allowed and allow those professing the so-called reformed religion to live and dwell in all the cities and places of our kingdom and their subordinate areas without persecution and compulsion to do anything in the matter of religion contrary to their conscience. ; they will not be searched on this occasion in the houses and places where they wish to live ...

- "Edict of Nantes"

The Catholic clergy were given back all their former rights and estates. Calvinism was tolerated wherever it was before. All the nobles who held the highest judicial positions had the right to perform Calvinistic worship and to admit outsiders to it. In the castles of ordinary nobles, Protestant worship was allowed if the number of Protestants did not exceed 30 people and if the castles were not located in an area where the Catholic owners enjoyed the right of the supreme court.

Calvinist worship was formally forbidden in Paris and some cities closed to it on the basis of concluded capitulations; but Protestants were allowed to live there. In all other places, the Huguenots could have churches, bells, schools, and hold public office. For religious reasons, it was forbidden to disinherit relatives, attack Huguenots and persuade their children to convert to Catholicism. All those sentenced to punishment for religious beliefs were pardoned.

The government pledged to help the Huguenots with subsidies for schools and churches. In addition, the Huguenots were granted a number of privileges of a political, judicial and military nature: they were allowed to convene periodic meetings (consistory, synods), keep deputies at the court to submit petitions and complaints through Sully, Morne and d'Aubigne. In Paris, a judicial chamber (Chambres de l'Edit) was established for the Protestants of Normandy and Brittany, in Castres for the Toulouse district, in Bordeaux and Grenoble - mixed chambers (Chambres miparties), for Provence and Burgundy Protestants.

Henry IV persuaded the parliaments with great tact to enter the edict into their minutes; only the Rouen parliament persisted until 1609. Having secured the edict with a large state seal, Henry called it “eternal and irrevocable”, protected it from misinterpretations, sometimes limiting it or expanding it temporarily, especially in relation to the term of the fortresses belonging to the Huguenots.

Under Louis XIII

Literature

// Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: In 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg. , 1890-1907.
Élie Benoit, "Histoire de l'Édit de Nantes";
Bernard, "Explication de l'Édit de Nantes" (H., 1666);
Meynier, "De l'execution de l'Édit de Nantes dans le Dauphiné";
O. Douen, "La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes à Paris" (H., 1894);
J. Bianquis, "La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes a Rouen" (Rouen, 1885);
Vaillant, "La Revocation de l'Éd. de Nantes dans le Boulonnais";
R. Reuss, "Louis XIV et l'Eglise protestante de Strasbourg au moment de la Révocation" (P., 1887).

Notes

Categories:

Religious legislation
Freedom of conscience
Reformation
History of Calvinism
Appeared in 1598
Law of the Ancien Régime in France

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Regulations

The Edict of Nantes granted full equality to Catholics and Protestants. The first article of the edict consigned to oblivion the events of the Wars of Religion and forbade any mention of them.

I. ... the remembrance of everything that happened on either side from the beginning of March 1585 until our coronation and during the other preceding troubles will be blotted out as if nothing had happened. Neither our Attorneys General nor any other person, public or private, will ever be allowed to mention this for any reason...

- "Edict of Nantes"

III. We command that the Catholic Apostolic Roman religion be restored in all places of our kingdom ... where its administration was interrupted and may it be practiced peacefully and freely without any confusion or obstacles.

In order not to give any cause for confusion and strife among our subjects, we have allowed and allow those professing the so-called reformed religion to live and dwell in all the cities and places of our kingdom and their subordinate areas without persecution and compulsion to do anything in the matter of religion contrary to their conscience. ; they will not be searched on this occasion in the houses and places where they wish to live ...

- "Edict of Nantes"

The government pledged to help the Huguenots with subsidies for schools and churches. In addition, the Huguenots were granted a number of privileges of a political, judicial and military nature: they were allowed to convene periodic meetings (consistory, synods), keep deputies at the court to submit petitions and complaints through Sully, Morne and d'Aubigne. In Paris, a judicial chamber (Chambres de l'Edit) was established for the Protestants of Normandy and Brittany, in Castres for the Toulouse district, in Bordeaux and Grenoble - mixed chambers (Chambres miparties), for Provence and Burgundy Protestants.

Under Louis XIII

Literature

// Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: In 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg. , 1890-1907.
Élie Benoit, "Histoire de l'Édit de Nantes";
Bernard, "Explication de l'Édit de Nantes" (H., 1666);
Meynier, "De l'execution de l'Édit de Nantes dans le Dauphiné";
O. Douen, "La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes à Paris" (H., 1894);
J. Bianquis, "La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes a Rouen" (Rouen, 1885);
Vaillant, "La Revocation de l'Éd. de Nantes dans le Boulonnais";
R. Reuss, "Louis XIV et l'Eglise protestante de Strasbourg au moment de la Révocation" (P., 1887).

Notes

Categories:

Religious legislation
Freedom of conscience
Reformation
History of Calvinism
Appeared in 1598
Law of the Ancien Régime in France

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