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1.	"Edict of Potsdam," issued by Frederick William ("the Great Elector") (October 29, 1685) French king Louis XIV’s 1684 revocation of the 1598 Edict of Nantes, which had guaranteed the French Calvinists’ (i.e. Huguenots’) religious practice and autonomy, drove some half-million of them....
2.	Exchange of Letters between Empress Maria Theresa and her Son Joseph II, Austrian Co-Regent, on the Subject of Religious Toleration (1777) These letters, originally written in French, reveal the gulf between Maria Theresa, who was unwilling....
3.	Emperor Joseph II’s Toleration Patent for the Lands of the Austrian Empire (1781) This important ruling, formulated as an official instruction to the various provincial chancelleries, applied only to Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist as well as Greek Orthodox Christians in those....
4.	Edict on Religion by Johann Christoph von Wöllner, Prussian Minister of Justice and Head of Religious Affairs, cosigned by King Frederick William II, and various Ministers (July 9, 1788) This combative document registered the anti-rationalist reaction that was gathering force in the late eighteenth century. At the same time, however, it also extended the principle of religious equality....
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