Lecture: ‘Liberté religieuse, liberté de conscience : une mise en perspective historique’ – 03/10/16 (Nantes)
…century. For Michel de Montaigne, ‘freedom of conscience’ meant ‘freedom of worship’. During the following century, the expression appeared more often in German, English and French languages, due to two specific factors: The complaints coming from dissident communities, as the Socinians, against state religions ; Increasingly individual claims for the…