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France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain.
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Huguenots
Historical religious group of French Protestants
The Huguenots are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Besançon Hugues, was in common use by the mid-16th…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Edict of Saint-Germain
1562 French decree on religious tolerance
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 edict provided limited tolerance to the Protestant Huguenots in the Catholic realm, though with…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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