The Concordat.—First measures of the Consular Government with reference to the Protestants.—Law of the 18th Germinal, year X. —Comparison of the old and new organization of the churches.—Speech of Napoleon to the presidents of the consistories.—State of the Protestants under the empire.—Creation of the faculty of theology of Montauban.—Projects of union.—[Page 462-473.]
IV.
Return of the Bourbons.—Charter of 1814.—Provocations against the Protestants in the south.—The hundred days.—The reaction.—Massacres at Nismes and the department of Gard.—M. Voyer-d’Argenson. —Assassination of General Lagarde.—Re-establishment of worship at Nismes.—The pastors of Gard.—[Page 473-481.]
V.
Double influence under the restoration.—Augmentation of the budget of the creeds, and other measures favourable to the Protestants. —Intrigues of the clerical party.—Trial of M. Paul Roman.—Pretension of parcelling out the Protestants within certain limits.—Resistance of the consistories.—Catholic missionaries.—Controversies. —Non-execution of the Charter.—[Page 482-489.]
VI.
Internal condition of Protestantism.—Religious life.—M. Daniel Encontre.—His education, talents, and labours.—Foundation of the Bible Society and other religious associations.—The Baron de Staël. —Evangelization.—Félix Neff.—The Protestants of the Upper Alps. —Protestant literature under the restoration.—[Page 489-497.]
VII.
Revolution of 1830.—Agitation at Nismes.—The Charter revised.—M. Dupin’s opinion on religious liberty.—Hopes of the Protestants.—Plan of ecclesiastical organization.—Different ameliorations.—Attempts to proselytize among the Catholics.—Opposition of the government. —Fetters imposed upon legal Protestantism.—Debates in the Chambers. —Instances of intolerance.—[Page 497-506.]
VIII.