Church and State in the French Reformation

Tulchin talks about the French Reformation which ultimately failed to persuade the majority of French people to convert, despite the astonishing successes of the Protestant movement in the late 1550s and early 1560s. The central argument of the most persuasive recent work is that although religious motivations were the spark, the political context was crucial to both the movement's initial success and its eventual failure. This is admittedly the latest round in a debate that has been around for a long time.