French_Religion

French Religion Religion has played a major role in France’s storied history. The major religions of France are Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Islam. During the 1500’s France went through a series of religious civil wars started from the Protestant reformation. The French Protestants were known as Huguenots, The Huguenots and the Catholics fought and by 1520 20% of the French population was Protestant. Many struggles between the Catholics and the Protestants continued, by 1560 the Queen of England allowed the Protestants to meet outside of the city for religious meetings, however both the Catholics and the Protestants viewed this as a sin. In 1562 the religious wars rise up again. The Catholics were hanged in Normandy and the Huguenots or Protestants were hanged in Paris. By 1594 the religious wars of France were over. Catholicism has been france, protestants, french, church, catholic, religious, catholics, wars, protestant, huguenots, religions, religion, population, over, major, however, hanged, government, during, years, while, war, viewed, very, united, underground, tolerant, today’s, through, taken, struggles, stripped, storied, states, started, sin