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The persecution of Protestants in France did not cease until 1787, two years before the French Revolution and eleven years before the dismantling of papal power by Napoleon in 1798. It was in 1787 that Louis XVI signed an edict restoring once and for all the civil rights of French Protestants “A century after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the Huguenots had at last become civil persons once again.”
Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, 257.
The point
The persecution of French Protestants lasted 128 years after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, ending in 1787 with restoration of their civil rights.
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Historical · Instructive
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