Brewer's: Nantes

(1 syl.). Edict of Nantes. The decree of Henri IV. of France, published from Nantes in 1598, securing freedom of religion to all Protestants. Louis XIV. repealed this edict in 1685.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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