The Edict Of Nantes Is Not Revoked!

The Edict Of Nantes 1598, gave French Protestants e.g. The Huguenots the right to religious tolerance and was enacted by King Henry IV.
It was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685, apparently having a crisis of conscience, believing he was letting his catholic side down! This led to massacres, mass exodus and many forced conversions of French Protestants. It also enraged France's Protestant neighbours and led to great suspicion of France and indeed the motives of Catholics in general. Television historian David Starkey claims it freaked Protestants in England to such an extent that when Catholic King James had eventually had a catholic male heir that it effectively led to the welcoming of Prince William Of Orange and his overthrow.
How would the world have been different if the Status Quo had remained In France?
A longer running Catholic monarchy tolerated in Britain?
No repercussions in Ireland from effectively an English civil war between James and William faught on Irish soil largely, with Catholics for the most part backing the loser despite the wishes of the pope bizarrely!
 
I would have thought the daft revoking of this edict by The Sun King had massive ramifications for Europe in particular France, Britain and Ireland!
 
Being partly of Huguenot exile descent myself, I'd follow such a thread with great interest. BTW, large numbers of us fled to Prussia, the Netherlands and South Africa as well.
 
Perhaps the result would be a more Catholic England and a more Protestant Europe and an ending to the Reformation sooner!
Also Ireland could well still be in the United Kingdom!
Re the flight of the Hughenots, a few settled in Ireland and indeed a man of such descent, Sean Lemass, became Prime Minister after De velera.
 
The impact is massive. Probably no War of the Nine Years as we know it, France is WAY stronger diplomatically, and the Stuarts in Britain have a far better position. That might lead to a more even (and thus worse) religious conflict as well, though.
 
I agree the impact would be phenomenal, maybe even no French Revolution. Yet it has received surprisingly little response here!:rolleyes:
 
Another impact is on British industry. Without the mass of Huguenot emigres, there is no silk industry developing aroud London-or, at least, a greatly reduced one.
 
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