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- 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.
- This was advantageous to him as the crown increasingly moved in the direction of toleration, culminating in the Edict of January which recognised the right of Protestant worship in 1562.
- By the edict of January 1751, King Louis XV founded the institution intended for the education of five hundred noble young men and born without fortune.
- Benedict has stated that three important factors inspired French Protestants to wage war against their Catholic adversaries: (1) John Calvin’s condemnation of “Nicodemism,” (2) Reformed polemical treatises and sermons against Catholic images, and (3) the Huguenot belief that the 1562 Edict of January was under direct assault by overzealous Catholics, and thus needed to be defended by force of arms.
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