French Calvinism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

For too long, the Huguenot story has lingered at the margins of Reformation history. While Protestant thought took deep root in Germany, the Netherlands, and Britain, the Reformed faith that once flourished in France was met with mounting hostility and, after 1685, brutal suppression. The result is a rich theological and pastoral tradition whose leading voices remain largely unknown to modern readers. This volume recovers that tradition by telling the story of French Calvinism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the lives of fifteen remarkable figures. Drawing readers into the turbulent world of pre-Revolution France—a landscape shaped by wars, synods, edicts, assassinations, and exile—it traces the full arc of the Huguenot movement. Part biography, part theology, part sweeping narrative history, this volume opens a window onto a world hitherto largely unknown.