BEGGARS, THIEVES AND MARGINALS LIVE OUTSIDE THE WALL, WHERE AUTHORITIES DO NOT VENTURE
In the 16th century, Protestants join them.
-- Pascal Payen-Appenzeller, pastor and historian of Paris,
gave some of the information here.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, 1854 ed. |
Saint-Germain must have resembled this "court of miracles."
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Adapted from a map of Paris in 1615 / zoom
- They sang hymns in the fields of Saint-Germain and pastors' first meeting took place in that "Little Geneva," a reference to Calvin's republic.
- Many were craftspeople, and living outside the city let them avoid guilds' regulations (History from fresh perspectives says more).
- Protestantism continued in Saint-Germain despite Louis XIV's prohibition (in 1684), to avoid clashing with the Scandinavians whose embassies were located there.
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Those Protestants are a reason for Saint-Germain's intellectuality because:
- Personal responsibility for salvation, their core belief, implies meditating on the Bible and so being able to read it, at a time when printing made books available.
- Here a massacre interrupts a figure as he reads — outside a rampart:
Expulsion of the Protestants of Toulouse by Antoine Rivalz, toward 1725 / zoom
- That emphasis on meditation and literacy fit the rising craftspeople, shopkeepers and lawyers who made up the mass of 16th-century Protestants in France. Sedentary, urban and obliged to keep accounts, they were usually literate.
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They left the superb Library of the history of Protestantism:
(Built in 1877)
The portrait of the first Protestant military chief (Admiral Coligny) leans against books, and a class led by the historian mentioned above.
Photo by the mother of the little boy
The director is showing16th-century documents to German Calvinists, descendants of French Protestants who fled the kingdom when their faith was outlawed. One record is the Bible of Henri IV, who had to abjure his Protestant belief.
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