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Following the Affair of the Placards, the French king leads an anti-Protestant procession through Paris.
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Affair of the Placards
1534 anti-Catholic protest in France
The Affair of the Placards was an incident in which anti-Catholic posters appeared in public places in Paris and in four major provincial cities, Blois, Rouen, Tours and Orléans, in the night of the 17 to 18 October 1534. One of the posters was posted on the bedchamber door of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Francis I of France
King of France from 1515 to 1547
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Major branch of Christianity
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Day of the year
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