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The Wars of Religion — Conflicts between Catholics and Calvinists in France, 1562 to 1598
Thirty-six years of civil wars broken by peaces that did not hold, in which the kingdom divided over faith and then over the succession. They ended when a Protestant king turned Catholic and gave the reformed an edict. (Editorial synthesis)
The Wars of Religion began in 1562 (Julian calendar). (source: Larousse)
The Wars of Religion ended in 1598. (source: Larousse)
The Wars of Religion ended in the religious toleration of the Huguenots guaranteed by the Edict of Nantes. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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