![]() There the struggle was obstinate and sanguinary, and lasted more than thirty years, ending, towards the close of the century, with the triumph of the Crown over the nation, and the State over the Church.Īlthough the French had had at least one reformer before the Reformation, and were prepared by the Gallican system for much divergence from prevailing forms of medieval Catholicism, they received the new ideas as an importation from Germany. ![]() ![]() When the religious frontiers were fixed in the rest of Europe, in France, the most important state of all, they were still unsettled.
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