Peace of Alès

The grace Edict of Alès was on June 28, 1629 after the final military defeat of the Huguenots in La Rochelle by Cardinal Richelieu in 1628 Announced contractual waiver, which regulated the basics of using the absolutist France with the Huguenots for the next forty years.

All previously granted the Edict of Nantes security courts were abolished. The armies of the Protestants were dissolved and razed their fortifications. By the grace edict the Huguenots was taken political power. National Church meetings ( synods ) of the Huguenots could only take place with the consent of the king. The political defeat of the Huguenots was not used for forced conversions, the existence of Protestants on French soil was further tolerated. Hence the name grace edict.

By the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, this changed.