Catholiques et Protestants Sur la Rive Gauche Du Rhin: Droits, Confessions et Coexistence Religieuse De 1648 À 1789

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Catholiques et protestants sur la rive gauche du Rhin: Droits, confessions et coexistence religieuse de 1648 à 1789. By Laurent Jalabert. (Brussels: Peter Lang. 2009. Pp. 546. $72.95. ISBN 978-9-052-01479-1.)

This nuanced and sophisticated study examines religious developments in the German-speaking territories to the west of the Rhine River in the century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years' War. These territories were profoundly affected in this period by the growing power of France, which supported the expansion of Catholicism in a predominantly Protestant region. Laurent Jalabert shows, however, the complex consequences of French efforts in the context of …