This led to the expulsion of around , Huguenots into the Diaspora and inaugurated a period of forced conversions at home within the French hexagon. The biblical allusion was not lost on them. Calvinists became second-class subjects. Toleration, by its very definition, requir ed a majority that allowed a minority to exist with limited privileges or rights. As David A.
Louis XIV had revoked the actions of a previous French king. Surely this could happen again. And in doing so, he identified, rather unintentionally, another limit of toleration.
When religious toleration shifts to complete, unadulterated religious liberty, it is left to the multi-religious community to uphold said tenets. Catholics who were accustomed to religious privilege in pre-revolutionary France would undoubtedly find any formal attempt at instituting religious equality to be oppressive in nature.
Religious violence and public security remained of paramount concern. Public spaces and public worship were lynchpins in the debates over religious freedoms. The Edict of Toleration had explicitly limited public worship to the Catholic Church. I have an important point to add: it is that a free cult for which I am asking you is a common cult. All cults require many [followers]. A cult [composing] of one [person] is adoration; it is prayer.
But none of you can ignore that no religion has ever existed without common worship … Christians cannot deny Christians of [communal] worship, without violating their own principles, since all believe in the necessity of public worship… [Th]e idea of public, common worship is a dogma, an article of faith.
