Marc Boegner, ou de la figure du chef en protestantisme français, particulièrement au cours des années 1940

Beginning in the 1930s, Marc Boegner served as chairman to early every French Protestant body imaginable, including the Fédération Protestante de France and the recently reunified Église Réformée. He did so in a perfectly democratic manner, albeit with a remarkable…


L’apport du protestantisme à l’école laïque : le cas Ferdinand Buisson

Ferdinand Buisson offers a good case study for re-examining the twentieth-century historiography that argued for the recognition of a greater plurality in French history at the hand of Bayle, Quinet, or the Protestant fathers of French political secularism. ‘Buisson’ was…


Au miroir du pluralisme : minorités protestantes et juives en Europe du XVIe au XXe siècle

This article examines the relationships between a number of minority Protestantisms (French, Italian, Hungarian, Czech) and the Jewish minorities in these same countries, the way in which these two groups in their respective countries contributed to the construction of a…


Assemblée du musée du désert 4 septembre 2016 – « Enchanter, désenchanter l’histoire du Refuge huguenot »

The history of the Huguenot Refuge quickly became an enchanted narrative according to which countless migrants witnessed of their loyalty to God by their exile and deprived France of the rich variety of their talents, while Europe’s Protestant states and…