Louis and Richelieu

Once Henry IV’s son Louis XIII, in collaboration with his powerful minister Richelieu, eliminated any real Huguenot power by the late 1620s, there was a period of limited toleration before a more militant Catholicism dominated French society under Louis XIV.

 

John B. Roney, "The French Reformed Churches: Caught between the Rise of Absolute Monarchy and the Counter-Reformation", in Martin Klauber, ed., The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), 77