@article{ART003308756},
author={Sukhwan Kang},
title={The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State},
journal={Korean Review of French History},
issn={1229-702X},
year={2026},
number={54},
pages={61-88}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sukhwan Kang
TI - The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State
JO - Korean Review of French History
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 54
PB - KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
SP - 61
EP - 88
SN - 1229-702X
AB - This article examines how anti-Huguenot policies were implemented at the local level in the kingdom of France during the post-Revocation period, focusing on the case of Languedoc. Analyzing primarily on trial, interrogation, and investigation records involving the intendant of Languedoc, Nicolas de Lamoignon de Basville, the article explores the gap between the central government’s declarations and their actual enforcement in the provinces. In Languedoc, where strong Huguenot communities survived, nouveaux convertis and crypto-Huguenots employed various strategies to cope with forced conversion and persecution. These actions created significant challenges for local officials to engage in an endless and often futile effort to identify and distinguish between “sincere” and “false” conversions. Following the Camisard revolt and during the subsequent Regency period, government policy increasingly shifted toward de facto toleration and relaxation in dealing with the Huguenot issue. This article consequently argues that the early modern French state faced structural limits in its ability to fully control the inner religious beliefs of its subjects. It further emphasizes that the recognition of these limits paradoxically laid important groundwork for the rise of Enlightenment discourses on religious toleration in the eighteenth century.
KW - Revocation;France;Huguenot;Languedoc;Conversion
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Sukhwan Kang. (2026). The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State. Korean Review of French History, 54, 61-88.
Sukhwan Kang. 2026, "The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State", Korean Review of French History, no.54, pp.61-88.
Sukhwan Kang "The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State" Korean Review of French History 54 pp.61-88 (2026) : 61.
Sukhwan Kang. The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State. 2026; 54 : 61-88.
Sukhwan Kang. "The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State" Korean Review of French History no.54(2026) : 61-88.
Sukhwan Kang. The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State. Korean Review of French History, 54, 61-88.
Sukhwan Kang. The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State. Korean Review of French History. 2026; 54 61-88.
Sukhwan Kang. The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State. 2026; 54 : 61-88.
Sukhwan Kang. "The Gap between the Revocation and Its Local Enforcement: Huguenot Trials in Languedoc and the Nature of the Early Modern French State" Korean Review of French History no.54(2026) : 61-88.
