The French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) were a series of eight conflicts between Protestant and Catholic factions in France lasting 36 years, The fighting ended in 1598 when Henry of Navarre, who had converted to Catholicism in 1593, was proclaimed Henry IV of France and issued the Edict of Nantes, which granted substantial rights and freedoms to the Huguenots. However, Catholics continued to have a hostile opinion of Protestants in general and of Henry, and his assassination in 1610 triggered a fresh round of Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s.

Tensions had been rising between Protestants and Catholics since 1534 but the religious and political situation worsened after Henry II (r. 1547-1559) died from an injury. His son, Francois II (Francis II, r. 1559-1560), crowned king at the age of 15, had been married to Mary, Queen of Scots (l. 1542-1587) who was the niece of Francis, Duke of Guise (l. 1519-1563) and his brother Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (l. 1524-1574). Although Francis II was of age to rule on his own, his mother, Catherine de ‘Medici (l. 1519-1589) encouraged the Guise brothers to assume control as Francis II was inexperienced and sickly.

The House of Guise, devoutly Catholic, then exercised the power behind the throne and were hostile to the efforts of the Huguenots (French Protestants) who were advancing their vision in France. In March 1560, a group of Huguenots tried to kidnap Francis II to remove him from the influence of the Guise brothers. The plot, known as the Amboise Conspiracy, was discovered and anyone thought to be involved, as well as over 1,000 other Huguenots, were executed. In retaliation, Huguenots began vandalizing Catholic churches and rising tensions led to the Massacre of Vassy in March of 1562, in which Catholics killed more Protestants, starting the first war.

Conflict continued, with periods of armed peace between hostilities, until 1598 when King Henry IV, recognizing that France would never accept a Protestant king, converted to Catholicism (allegedly, with the famous line, “Paris is well worth a Mass”). His Edict of Nantes (1598), granting rights to Protestants in France while maintaining Catholic sovereignty, ended the French Wars of Religion (which had cost approximately 4 million lives) but did not address the underlying tensions which continued to erupt throughout the next century.

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  • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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    7 months ago
    oh no Im mentioning meat in here, meat is mentioned, avoid!!!!

    I had to cook 141 fuck damn pounds of fried chicken tonight and idfk how or where it went when even on a busy night they usually eat at most 100Ib of their preferred protein. Jfc. Thank god I'm already better than the head chef at judging how much to get ready because he was like "do 80Ib" and I got 100 ready

    P.s. the part time cook who helps me 2 days a week and always fries the chicken talked shit about how I seasoned it. Specifically "we only use the lawrys and rotisserie seasoning."

    But guess what! I seasoned it.... with all the components of those things! Except the msg because we don't have it (i would have used lawrys specifically for the msg but we don't have any anyway AND the last time i looked at it the label doesn't even mention msg)

    I tell her this and she's all 🙄🙄🙄 you say the same thing about the ketchup 🙄🙄 because she INSISTS that the sauce for the meatloaf is wrong without ketchup in it. I make the sauce with literally everything that is in ketchup, except the high fructose corn syrup. That's it. And you know what? Everyone but her says my sauce is better lol