Huguenots were to be entitled to worship freely everywhere in France in private, and publicly in some named towns and on the estates of Protestant landowners. They were permitted to inherit property, engage in trade, attend all schools and universities, and be treated in hospitals on the same basis as everyone else. There was a full amnesty for crimes committed during the wars by both sides and in secret articles, signed on May 2nd, the government agreed to pay the Protestant pastors and subsidise the garrisons of some fifty Huguenot fortified towns.
Throughout his reign, Henri IV made sure that the edict of Nantes was properly enforced. He even allowed Parisian Protestants to gather for worship in Charenton, less than five leagues away from the capital.
In , persecutions began once more. In , the King — convinced that most Protestants had by then become Catholics — signed the revocation of the edict of Nantes in Fontainebleau. After the Edict of Nantes, France enjoyed a period of peace.
Henry IV overviewed the implementation of the Edict which protected the Protestants but curbed their expansion. It banned Protestant worship and the emigration of Protestants. Pastors were banished. As a result they lost all social identity. In offering general freedom of conscience to individuals, the edict offered many specific concessions to the Protestants: an amnesty, the reinstatement of their civil rights, including the right to work in any field or for the State and to bring grievances directly to the king.
The Protestants were granted one hundred places of safety, such as La Rochelle. The Edict was introduced primarily to end the long-running, disruptive French Wars of Religion. Henry IV also had personal reasons for supporting the Edict.
Nantes, Edict of French royal decree establishing toleration for Huguenots Protestants. It granted freedom of worship and legal equality for Huguenots within limits, and ended the Wars of Religion. What impact did the French religious wars have on French thinkers?
It turned the French thinkers toward skepticism. How did Jean Baptiste Colbert intend to stimulate economic growth in France? He intended to stimulate economic growth in France with mercantilist policies to makes France self-sufficient. Colbert devoted endless energy to the reorganization of industry and commerce. Colbert believed in the theory of Mercantilism.
To prevent wealth from leaving the country, Colbert tried to make France self-sufficient. It was caused by the power of the French Bourbons as they are in a throne. Cardinal Richelieu helped strengthen the French monarchy largely by weakening those who might opposed the king and strengthening those who could support him.
To further limit the influence of the nobles, Richelieu supported giving more power to government agents who were drawn from the middle class.
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