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    1559–1562 French political crisis (category History of Protestantism in France)
    of those responsible. A Protestant church had been established in Dieppe and in October the governor of Normandie the duc de Bouillon oversaw its dismantling...
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    1624, a Protestant chapel (called in France a temple) was built behind the house. Manoir du Petit col Moulins, 16th century, dovecote. Manoir de Vitanval...
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    First French War of Religion (1562–1563) (category History of Protestantism in France)
    Similarly in Dieppe, some Protestants argued against the return of Catholics with the peace. They petitioned to receive a Protestant captain, so that...
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    Huguenots (category French Protestants)
    [yɡ(ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from...
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  • evident when in 1572, Catherine de Medici ordered the killing of the Protestant Coligny. This resulted in 3000 Protestants being killed in what is known...
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    of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, but Parliament was disgusted and horrified at the thought of English Protestants fighting French Protestants. The plan only fuelled...
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    after a few months in Dieppe, the authorities permitted him to return to Paris. At a dinner, French mathematician Charles Marie de La Condamine proposed...
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    Samuel de Champlain: Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France... (1632) (at Rare Book Room) (in French) Baptismal parish register, August 13, 1574, protestant temple...
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    forces between 30 June 1940 and 9 May 1945. The town of Dieppe was the site of the unsuccessful Dieppe Raid by Canadian and British armed forces. The Allies...
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  • The Protestant Reformation experienced relative success in Normandy. From 1557, John Venable, library colporteur from Dieppe disseminated in Pays de Caux...
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