The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.

Colloquy of Poissy

1561 conference between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots) in France

The Colloquy at Poissy was a religious conference which took place in Poissy, France, in 1561. Its object was to effect a reconciliation between the Roman Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots) of France.

Catholic Church in France

The Catholic Church in France, Gallican Church, or French Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome. Established in the second century in unbroken communion with the bishop of Rome, it was sometimes called the "eldest daughter…

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…