Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The campaign against the Protestants; 2. Paris: 'ville de tolérance'; 3. Who were the Huguenots of Paris?; 4. Keeping the faith: family and religious culture; 5. Networks: the Protestants in the city; 6. Catholics and Protestants: hostility, indifference, and coexistence; 7. Growing acceptance; 8. Changing beliefs and religious cultures; 9. A non-confessional public domain; 10. Conclusion: the coming of religious freedom.

Promotional Information

This book investigates the reasons why the Catholic population of Paris increasingly tolerated the minority Protestant Huguenot population between 1685 and 1789.

About the Author

David Garrioch is Professor of History at Monash University, Victoria. He has written widely on the social history of Paris in the eighteenth century, including The Making of Revolutionary Paris (2002), which won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for History in 2003.

Reviews

'David Garrioch's book on the Calvinist Parisians (Huguenots) from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to the eve of the French Revolution is a welcome one. In a clear and easy to read style, Garrioch brings us a much-needed study of Protestant Parisians in the eighteenth century … His study fills an important gap in the cultural history of Paris that traces the development of a diverse and tolerant city, a reflection of the economic and intellectual changes that marked the eighteenth century as a whole.' Xavier Marechaux, H-France

'Garrioch demonstrates his ability to connect the practices of everyday life to larger patterns of social and cultural transformation … By bringing together the various communities that shaped early modern Paris, he underscores the diversity of religious experience in Ancien Regime France and the continuing importance of religious sensibilities in the Age of Light.' Huguenot Society Journal

'Although the Huguenots are a central theme in the historiography of sixteenth - and seventeenth -century France, they tend to fade from view in studies of the eighteenth, appearing in a few dramatic episodes … Garrioch, an expert on eighteenth-century Paris, gives us a fuller picture. He shows how this banned minority managed to survive and eventually thrive in the capital, thanks to the rise of religious toleration over the course of the eighteenth century.' Charles Walton, The Journal of Modern History