Nantes, Edict of
Nantes, Edict of ( 1598 )A decree promulgated by Henry IV that terminated the French Wars of Religion . It was signed at Nantes, a port on the Loire estuary in western France. The Edict defined the religious and civic rights of the Huguenots , giving them freedom of worship and a state subsidy to support their troops and pastors. It virtually created a state within a state and was incompatible with the policies of Richelieu and Mazarin and of Louis XIV . The fall of the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle to...
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