{"id":109604,"date":"2017-12-09T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:43","slug":"french-protestants-granted-freedom-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/french-protestants-granted-freedom-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"French Protestants granted freedom of worship, 1802"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/R_tQp_gQkhI\/AAAAAAAAAc8\/ak2fVHzoQMA\/s1600-h\/Paris57.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186828078198854162\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/paris57.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109605\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 198px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 146px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/modernhistorian.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/on-this-day-in-history-louis-xiv.html\">The revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV<\/a> in October 1685, made Protestant worship in France illegal. This  remained the case until  they received limited toleration during the  French Revolution. Following his rise to power, Napoleon Bonaparte  promulgated the law of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">18 Germinal an X <\/span>on 8th April 1802, which granted full religious tolerance to French Protestants.<\/p>\n<p>In the 121 articles of this law, also known as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">les Articles Organiques<\/span> (the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Organic Articles<\/span>),  Bonaparte sought to regulate public worship in France and to limit the  divisive forces it could unleash. 44 of the articles  applied to the  Protestants. They received the freedom to worship, but they were to have  no national synod, which may have created a state within the state.  Rather, the law established regional church organisations known as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">consistoires<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The  remaining 77 articles set down the relationship between the French  state and the Catholic church. Pope Pius VII protested against the  effective nationalisation of the Gallican Church and its subordination  to state regulation. Nevertheless, Bonaparte&#8217;s power meant that the  pontiff had little choice but to sign the document.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the Organic Articles in an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/01756a.htm\">Catholic Encyclopedia<\/a> site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in October 1685, made Protestant worship in France illegal. This remained the case until they received limited toleration during the French Revolution. Following his rise to power, Napoleon Bonaparte promulgated the law of 18 Germinal an X on 8th April 1802, which granted full religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}