ID: 901001683 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001683	Record Type: Literature

	Edict of Nantes (edict, French, 1598)

Note: Law promulgated at Nantes in Brittany on 13 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, which granted a large measure of religious liberty to his Protestant subjects, the Huguenots. The edict was accompanied by Henry IV’s own conversion from Huguenot Calvinism to Roman Catholicism and brought an end to the violent Wars of Religion that began in 1562. The controversial edict was one of the first decrees of religious tolerance in Europe and granted unheard-of religious rights to the French Protestant minority.

Display Date: 13 April 1598

Names:

	Edict of Nantes (edict, French, 1598) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Édit de Nantes (edict, French, 1598) (French,U,P)
	Edit de Nantes (edict, French, 1598) (English,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Legal, Political, Governmental documents> (P)
		............Edict of Nantes (edict, French, 1598) (I)

Related Iconography:

	predecessor of .... Edict of Fontainebleau
	..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Named written and performed works, Literary works: Legal, Political, Governmental documents, Edict of Fontainebleau (edict, French, 1685)) [901000246]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... edict
	.....(declaratory documents, documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	actor is .... Henry IV, King of France (French king, 1553-1610)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	topic is .... Huguenot
	.....(Protestantism, Christianity, Abrahamic religions, religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... law (document)
	.....(documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	located in .... Nantes
	.....(Pays de la Loire, France, Europe) (TGN)

Sources:

	Edict of Nantes (edict, French, 1598)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 85126553
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Édit de Nantes (edict, French, 1598)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Edit de Nantes (edict, French, 1598)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Edict of Nantes," accessed 24 July 2017
	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Nantes#/media/File:Edit_de_Nantes_Avril_1598.jpg