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<P>The French Calvinists or Huguenots entered the seventeenth century enjoying the rights grated to them as a religious minority by the Edict of Nantes. Within eighty years they were suffering brutal dragonnades, and by the end of the century Calvinism was almost exterminated: it would be nearly another hundred years before religious tolerance would be restored in France. </P> <P></P> <P>In examining this critical period, whose bigotry cast a long shadow into the twentieth century, Dr. Stankiewicz throws into relief the vast body of seventeenth-century French political ideas. He is particularly interested in the relations between political thought and historic events. Analytical rather than descriptive, his book examines the problem of toleration on many levels; it contrasts ideology with policy, domestic affairs with international issues, religion with politics, and theory with practice. The author cuts through a complex mass of material to appraise the relation between toleration -- or tolerance or <I>tolerationism</I>, whichever the case may be -- party politics, and revolutionary action. </P> <P></P> <P>Most of the text is based on seventeenth-century documents in French, Latin

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Author

Stankiewicz, W.J.

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1960

Language

EN

ISBN

9781487580230

Category

nonfiction