A history of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, beginning from the death of Henry IV, when it was in full effect, through the Huguenot wars of Louis XII, the effective toleration of Richelieu and Mazarin, the declared policy of Louis XIV that he would give the Huguenots no more than the law allowed - and the slide into persecution, the Revocation, the Civil War of the Camisards, the century of persecution thereafter, the Edict of Toleration of 1787, and the full recognition and co-establishment of the Huguenots under Napoleon in 1802.