The Dauphiné Reformation Museum
In the heart of a picturesque medieval village (Poët-Laval), the Dauphiné Reformation Museum was founded partly in a 14th century Manor House. In the 17th century the house became a Reformed Church and, at the time of the "Revocation", it was one of two churches in the country which were not eradicated.
The Museum will enable you to discover the history of the Dauphiné Reformation:
- the Reformation and its wide influence, the setting up of the first local churches, the religious wars between Roman-catholics and Protestants, the 1598 Edict of Nantes,
- the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the persecutions, the emigration of many, the underground period with its worship vestiges (Huguenots).
- the so-called 1787 Tolerance Edict, and several years later the first administrative freedom of worship, Felix Neff and the 19th century "revivals",
- during World War II, the Protestants and the Resistance movement, present day developments...
and a collection of recent mosaics depicting biblical themes