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Let me explain :

Since the Middle-Age, Aquitaine (and Occitania) were way less pious than northern France. The Court of Bordeaux under Aliénor of Aquitaine is a good exemple of it : people had fun, were drinking wine, they invented love poems, and had many bards and singers. (This is one of the reasons why she didn't get along with the King of Franks, she was finding him boring and overzealous towards Christianity).

They were a huge center of Catharism (especially around Bordeaux) which was about free will and being pure and nice towards sinners and stuff.

They are known to be merrier than Northern France, and have always been.

So do you know why they adopted such a strict flavor of Reformation as Calvinism, instead of, I dunno, creating their own version or something ?
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