Antoine Court

Antoine Court (born March 17, 1695, Villeneuve-de-Berg, Fr.—died June 12, 1760, Lausanne, Switz.) was a minister and itinerant preacher in the Reformed church who restored Protestantism to France after a period of persecution begun by King Louis XIV’s revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which had guaranteed the religious and civil liberties of Protestants. By 1700 the Reformed church was in chaos, its ministers exiled or dead and its leaderless membership becoming increasingly...