Louis XIV thought revoking the Edict of Nantes would make France stronger by?

Question

Louis XIV thought revoking the Edict of Nantes would make France stronger by

A. allowing freedom of religion.
B. encouraging Huguenots to hold government offices.
C. unifying it under one religion.
D. forcing Catholics to convert to Protestantism.

Answer 1

C.

Answer 2

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Louis XIV thought revoking the Edict of Nantes would make France stronger by?
Louis XIV thought revoking the Edict of Nantes would make France stronger by

A. allowing freedom of religion.
B. encouraging Huguenots to hold government offices.
C. unifying it under one religion.
D. forcing Catholics to convert to Protestantism.

Answer 3

Revocation Edict Of Nantes

Answer 4

Just to add to Wise Owl answer, the Protestants had also started to become an irritation, and Louis XIV did not like irritations or any threat to his rule. In the towns and regions where they had been given leadership they were hassling the Catholics, they were also demanding more rights and the powerful Protestants lords were making noises (creating de facto Protestant ruled provinces, allying with protestants kings and princes) that were very unpleasant to a king who had had to flee his nobles and fight to get his own throne back as a child and a young man and who knew about the problems the Protestants had created for the previous kings (they had done all that under Charles X, Henri III and Louis XIII). The siege of La Rochelle might make a good background for a musketeer story but the basis was Protestants revolting against their king and allying with a foreign kingdom to help them fight their king. And that wasn't the first time they had done this. While the religious wars in France are remembered as Catholics butchering Protestants, one has to remember that during that time in the places where Protestants had the upper hand it was the Catholics who suffered the same treatment. Nothing like the monstrous St Bartholemy massacre but butchering as well (look up the Michelades for example). The king knew it, his mostly Catholic lords and people remembered it too (forgetting their own massacres) and the new arrogance of the Protestants rubbed the mostly Catholic kingdom wrong. The king rode that wave to get rid as well of a potential danger, destroy the power of part of his nobles and take that opportunity to get rid of a population who was opposing him as a whole. That made the French monarchy stronger and was another step towards the absolute power that Louis XIV wanted, and it got rid of plenty of potential traitors who would help foreign princes or receive help from them (extremely important for a king who spent his time making wars to his neighbours). The economic power of the Protestant merchant class was not something that Louis could recognise or even understand. To French kings power meant soldiers and the ability to raise armies.

Answer 5

"Eighty-seven years later, in October 1685, Louis XIV, the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism illegal with the Edict of Fontainebleau. This act, commonly called the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, had very damaging results for France. While the wars of religion did not re-ignite, many Protestants chose to leave France, most moving to Great Britain, Germany, the Dutch Republic and Switzerland. This exodus deprived France of many of its most skilled and industrious individuals, who would from now on aid France's rivals in Holland and England. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes also further damaged the perception of Louis XIV abroad, making the Protestant nations bordering France even more hostile to his regime."

"Edict of Nantes" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_nantes

"By this edict, the "Sun King" revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598) and ordered the destruction of Huguenot churches, as well as the closing of Protestant schools. This policy officialized the persecution already enforced since the dragonnades created in 1681 by the king in order to intimidate Huguenots into converting to Catholicism. As a result of the persecution by the dragons soldiers and the subsequent Edict of Fontainebleau, a large number of Protestants — estimates range from 200,000 to 500,000 — left France over the next two decades, seeking asylum in England, the United Provinces, Denmark, the Habsburg's Holy Roman Empire and North America. On January 17th 1686, Louis XIV himself claimed that out of a Huguenot population of 800,000 to 900,000, only 1,000 to 1,500 had remained in France."

"As a result, Louis XIV's pious second wife Mme de Maintenon was a strong advocate of Protestant persecution and urged Louis to revoke Henri IV's edict; her confessor and spiritual advisor, François de la Chaise must be held largely responsible."

"The revocation of the Edict of Nantes created a state of affairs in France similar to that of virtually every other European country of the period, where only the majority state religion was tolerated. The experiment of religious toleration in Europe was effectively ended for the time being."

"Edict of Fontainebleau" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Fontainebleau

"Madame de Maintenon, once a Protestant, had converted to Roman Catholicism. It was once believed that she vigorously promoted the persecution of the Protestants, and that she urged Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes (1598), which granted a degree of religious freedom to the Huguenots. However, this view of her participation is now being questioned. Louis XIV himself supported such a plan; he believed, along with the rest of Europe, Catholic or Protestant, that, in order to achieve national unity, he had to first achieve a religiously unified nation—specifically a Catholic one in his case. This was enshrined in the principle of "Cuius regio, eius religio", which defined religious policy throughout Europe since its establishment, by the Peace of Augsburg, in 1555. He had already begun the persecution of the Huguenots by quartering soldiers in their homes, though it was theoretically within his feudal rights, and hence legal, to do so with any of his subjects."

"Louis continued his attempt to achieve a religiously united France by issuing an Edict in March 1685. The Edict affected the French colonies, and expelled all Jews from them. The public practice of any religion except Roman Catholicism became prohibited. In October 1685, Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking that of Nantes, on the pretext that the near-extinction of Protestantism and Protestants in France made any edict granting them privileges redundant. The new edict banished from the realm any Protestant minister who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism. Protestant schools and institutions were banned. Children born into Protestant families were to be forcibly baptised by Roman Catholic priests, and Protestant places of worship were demolished. The Edict precluded individuals from publicly practising or exercising the religion, but not from merely believing in it. The Edict provided "liberty is granted to the said persons of the Pretended Reformed Religion [Protestantism] ... on condition of not engaging in the exercise of the said religion, or of meeting under pretext of prayers or religious services." Although the Edict formally denied Huguenots permission to leave France, about 200,000 of them left in any case, taking with them their skills in commerce and trade."

"Louis XIV of France : Height of power in the 1680s" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France#Height_of_power_in_the_1680s