Why Did the Number of French Protestants Increase in France

question 7

Multiple Choice

Why did the number of French Protestants increase in France until 1560?

• A) A significant number of noble French families on the upper rungs of society had converted to Protestantism.
• B) Kings Francis I and Henry II were secret Calvinists who welcomed conversions.
• C) Calvinist missionaries from England and Germany used Paris as a base from which to convert French Catholics.
• D) Divisions among Protestant reformers in Switzerland and Germany paradoxically unleashed a competition for converts in other European states.

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