History 2403E Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gaspard Ii De Coligny, Love Shack, Puritans
26 Oct 2016
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For long period of time protestant movement has a degree of breathing room in france. 1519: lutheran idea"s start spreading around france. Had comes out aggressively against lutheran ideas. Insist that francis i take his duties as king seriously and actively persecute protestantism. Francis decides to take a more lenient attitude towards. Number of swiss evangelical leaders print posters the decry the mass as a right. Place placards up in the city of paris. One of these placards are placed on francis love shack. Francis i believes that he has traitors in his mist/ there are protestants in his household. Persecution intensifies under the reign of henry ii and his son. Despite persecution the number of protestants begins to grow. One of the reasons is that a specific kind of protestant faith begins to grow: calvinism. Becomes the most successful and dynamic of the protestant faith.
