Reformation in France by Richard Heath
Today’s free book is a history of the reformation in France by Richard Heath. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.
Richard Heath [1831-1912], Reformation in France from the Dawn of Reform to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Church History Series II. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1886. Hbk. pp.192. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- The Movement for Reform Until the Edict of Nantes
- Prelude
- Day-break
- Calvin and Geneva
- Light and Joy flood France
- The Five Scholars of Lausanne
- The Martyrs and the Psalter
- New Shepherds and a New Fold
- The Calvinistic Constitution at Work
- Reform and ‘the Gentlemen of France’
- Science ad Art among the early Huguenots
- Catherine de Medici
- The Conference at Poissy
- Terrible Position of the Huguenots
- Killing or being Killed
- Demoralization
- Charles IX and Coligny
- The Murder of Coligny
- The Massacre of St. Bartholomews
- After St. Bartholomew
- New Dangers
- The Edict of Nantes
- From the Edict of Nantes to its Revocation
- Prosperous but Declining
- Facilis descensus Averni
- The Counter-Reformation in France
- In Their Misery the People Worship the Devil
- A Last Effort at Reconciliation
- Persecution Recommences
- Going down to Egypt fpr Help
- Jesuit Coup d’Etat at Béarn
- The Hugenot Commonwealth at La Rochelle
- Huguenot Learning and Methods of Education (first half of the Seventeenth Century)
- Louis XIII. and Richelieu
- The Siege of La Rochelle
- The End of Political Protestantism
- Passing under the ‘Candine Forks’
- The Huguenot Pulpit and Protestant Art (middle of the Seventeenth Century)
- The Protestant Churches of France no longer allowed a National Character
- Further Inroads on Huguenot Liberty
- The Huguenots and the King
- Public Opinion and the Huguenots
- The Conversion and Jubilee of the King inaugurate a New Series of Persecutions
- The Booted Mission
- Some Huguenots Attempt to Appeal to the Conscience of France
- The Second Dragonnades
- The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
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