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SAQ Example SAQ Example Many historians label The Edict of Nantes as a turning point in European history. Identify and explain ONE change in France after the Edict of Nantes. Identify and explain ONE continuity in France after the Edict of Nantes Describe and explain ONE reason for the change and ONE reason for the continuity.

Many historians label The Edict of Nantes as a turning point in European history. a) Identify and explain ONE change in France after the Edict of Nantes. After the Edict of Nantes, religious and political warfare between the Huguenots and Catholics ceased in France. Like much of the wars of religion, the fighting was more motivated by political rather than religion reasons as antimonarchical French nobles used Calvinism to gain political independence from the monarchy. However, the French monarchy usurped power from all of the nobility, Catholic and Huguenot, paving the way for absolutism in France.

Many historians label The Edict of Nantes as a turning point in European history. b) Identify and explain ONE continuity in France after the Edict of Nantes Catholicism remained the dominant religion in France due to the French monarchy and Catholic Church’s mutually beneficial political deal called the Concordat of Bologna. The French monarchy could appoint their own clergymen, giving them political and religious independence from Rome, but France remained submissive to the Pope. The fact that France remained predominantly Catholic reflects the rest of Europe which also remained mostly Catholic despite the growth of the Protestant Reformation.

Many historians label The Edict of Nantes as a turning point in European history. c) Describe and explain ONE reason for the change and ONE reason for the continuity. The reason the French monarchy, under Henry IV, was able to gain more power, thus centralizing the French state, was because Henry was a politique. This meant that Henry shrewdly recognized that religion would tear apart the state; political unification was more important than religion and the only way to ensure this unity was to accept religious pluralism.