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The Edict of Nantes was a 16th-century French law that granted religious rights and protections to Huguenots, who were French Protestants facing persecution. It matters because it represented an important early attempt to provide legal tolerance for a religious minority, allowing people of different faiths to coexist in the same country.
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First page of the Edict of Nantes (Archives nationales)
The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes) was an edict signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France that granted the Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was predominantly Catholic. While upholding Catholicism as the established religion, and requiring the re-establishment of Catholic worship in places it had lapsed, it granted certain religious tolerance to the Protestant Huguenots, who had been waging a long and bloody struggle for their rights in France.