Excerpt from The French Wars of Religion At the same time it widened the breach between the Reformers and their Opponents, and definitely divided France into two religious camps. After the truce of Nice, and the interview with the Emperor at aigues-mortes Arancis I. Addressed himself in earnest to the work of sup pressing heresy, and the last seven years of his reign (1540 - 1547) were marked by severe edicts of repression and numerous executions. But in spite of this policy of persecution, perhaps by reason of it, the work of propagandism went on in secret, and by the end of the reign there was not aprovince in France, except Brittany, in which Protestantism had not acquired a foothold. Its adherents came chicfly from the artisans of the towns, With a sprinkling of monks and cures but it also penetrated into a few country districts, such as the neighbourhood of Rouen, and though the majority of the humanists were, like Rabelais. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.