Reformist ideas began to spread in Provence and Comtat from 1520. The 1530s marked the beginning of the repression of heresy. The Reformed came from either the Waldensian movement or the Catholic Church. The period between 1530 and 1560 was that of the "primo-Protestants" during which there was organized persecution, before the French Wars of Religion.
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Reformist ideas began to spread in Provence and Comtat from 1520. The 1530s marked the beginning of the repression of heresy. The Reformed came from either the Waldensian movement or the Catholic Church. The period between 1530 and 1560 was that of the "primo-Protestants" during which there was organized persecution, before the French Wars of Religion.
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