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The text examines the systematic persecution of Huguenots in France following the revocation of legal protections, detailing the legal and extralegal instruments employed to suppress Protestant worship and conscience. It documents measures such as confiscations, imprisonments, sentences to the galleys, dragonnades, forced conversions, child removals and the denial of civil status that undermined families and livelihoods. It follows resulting emigration, social and economic ruin, and the persistence of clandestine religious practice. It concludes by presenting these episodes as a cautionary lesson about religious intolerance and the consequences of granting ecclesiastical privilege precedence over universal civil rights.
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