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The Edict of Beaulieu (also known at the time as the Peace of Monsieur) was promulgated from Beaulieu-lès-Loches[1] on 6 May 1576[2] by Henry III of France, who was pressured by Alençon's support of the Protestant army besieging Paris that spring.
The Edict, which was negotiated by the king's brother, Monsieur— François, duc d'Alençon, who was now made duc d'Anjou—[3] gave Huguenots the right of public worship for their religion, thenceforth officially called the religion prétendue réformée ("supposed reformed religion"), throughout France, except at Paris and at Court. Huguenots were permitted to own and build churches, to hold consistories and synods, and occupy eight fortified towns called places de sûreté. In eight of the parlements, chambers were created called mis-parties because the same number of Catholics and Protestants sat in these tribunals. Additionally, there was to be a disclaimer of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the families which had suffered from it were to be returned to positions of prominence and fairly compensated. These large concessions to the Huguenots and the approbation given to their political organization led to the formation of the Catholic League, which was organized by Catholics anxious to defend their religion.[4]
The King held a lit de justice in the Parlement of Paris on 14 May to subvert pending opposition in the strongly Catholic parlement[5] and to ensure that the Edict was duly inscribed.[6] In December 1576, however, the States-General of Blois declared itself against the Edict of Beaulieu. Thereupon the Protestants took up arms under the leadership of Henry of Navarre, who, escaping from the Court, had returned to the Calvinism which he had abjured at the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. The advantage was on the Catholic side, thanks to some successes achieved by the duc d'Anjou. In September 1577, the Treaty of Bergerac, confirmed by the Edict of Poitiers, left the Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practiced before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date.
^Beaulieu lies directly across the river Indre from Loches.
^Pierre Miquel, p. 314.
^"...it was thought that the most important thing was to appease the duke of Alençon, " Jacques-Auguste de Thou remarked in his Histoire universelle, based on notes he had been accumulating. "Thus his apanage was augmented with the three richest provinces in the kingdom: Berry, Touraine and Anjou." (Quoted by Mack P. Holt, "The King in Parlement: The Problem of the Lit de Justice in Sixteenth-Century France" The Historical Journal31.3 [September 1988:507-523] p. 310).
^Knecht, R. J. (Robert Jean) (2010). The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598 (3rd ed.). Harlow, England: Longman. ISBN 9781408228197. OCLC 501404324.
^Pierre de l'Estoile recorded in his diary "This was so odious to the Court, that if the King had not come there in person, it would never have been published" (Quoted Holt 1988:511).
^According to the papal nuncio, Antonio Maria Salviati, "La corte non voleva emologare le lettere, ma il Re in persona vi è andato..." Holt 1988, eo. loc..
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