'Facing the Revocation' tells the story of one French Protestant (Huguenot) family, the Champagnes, as they faced the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which criminalized their religion in 1685. It challenges the way Huguenot history has been told for 300 years and thereby offe…
The Edict of Nantes ended the civil wars of the Reformation in 1598 by making France a kingdom with two religions. Catholics could worship anywhere, while Protestants had specific locations where they were sanctioned to worship. Over the coming decades Protestants' religious fre…
Facing the Revocation tells the story of one French Protestant (Huguenot) family, the Champagnés, as they faced the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which criminalized their religion in 1685. In this sweeping family saga, Carolyn Chappell Lougee narrates how the Champagné fami…
"Le mercredi 17 octobre 1685 est un jour parfaitement ordinaire. Louis XIV, qui réside à Fontainebleau, chasse le matin, assiste le soir à une comédie, et dans l'intervalle signe l'édit révoquant l'édit de Nantes, régissant depuis 1598 les rapports entre catholiques et protestan…