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Protestants Vs. Catholics

Catholics and Protestants were in a constant power struggle to gain and maintain religious dominance in late 16th century France. Religious power was something that the Catholics had always had and they were willing to do anything to keep it that way. Protestants believed that a person had no need for the Catholic church in order to get back to God. Both Church's strong belief that they were unanimously right and intense opposition of the other created a barrier between the two that no one seemed to be able to break through.
Protestants where under constant attack from the Catholics. As they advised people to look within themselves for religious truth and no longer to the churches, Protestant churches gained many followers rapidly causing panic in Catholic leaders across France and the rest of Europe.
Huguenots, or French Protestants, experienced their first wave of persecution after the capture of Francois I by Emperor Charles V of Pavia . Wanting to gain favor with the Catholic......


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