An article from the Virtual Museum of Protestantism on the roughly ten month dechristianization campaign between September 1793 and July 1794, tracing its effect on France's Protestant clergy specifically: 98 of 215 Reformed pastors resigned under pressure, including 57 in the Gard region alone, and five Protestant deputies were executed during the Terror. Records the campaign's end on 7 May 1794 and the reopening of churches from 1795. Published by an institution devoted to documenting French Protestant history, checkable against the same episode's Catholic-focused historiography.
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PublisherMusee protestant (Fondation pasteur Eugene Bersier) 1 URLhttps://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/dechristianisation-during-the-reign-of-terror-1793-1794/ 1 Assessment
Reliability TierA specialist institutional history museum devoted to French Protestantism, tier 2: not a peer-reviewed academic press, but a named institution with an editorial and archival mandate, used here for the Protestant-specific clergy figures the broader Catholic-focused sources do not carry. Cross-Tradition Connections
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