Ancien temple protestant du Poët-Laval

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The former Protestant temple of Poët-Laval, currently the Musée du Protestantisme Dauphinois, is a monument located in Le Poët-Laval, commune of Drôme. It is one of three French Protestant temples that date from before the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685.

History: Placed within the medieval part of the village, in the former commandery of the order of hospital knights, the building had several uses. At first the house of knight, in the 15th century, the house was then communal house, then Protestant temple in 1622 while the region (Drôme, Cevennes) is very widely acquired from the ideas of Protestant reform. This temple is one of three French Protestant temples dating from before the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685; all other Protestant temples were destroyed in France by the armed forces of King Louis XIV. After the ban on the so-called Reformed Religion, the temple returned to the village's common house and was not changed. The Edict of Versailles, an edict of tolerance signed by Louis XVI in 1787, and then article 10 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 will allow Protestants...