pragmatic concession of his grandfather Henry IV to end the longstanding French Wars of Religion. An additional factor in
Louis's thinking was the prevailing contemporary European principle to assure socio-political stability, cuius regio, eius religio
("whose realm, his religion"), the idea that the religion of the ruler should be the religion of the realm (as originally confirmed in
central Europe in the Peace of Augsburg of 1555).[67]
Responding to petitions, Louis initially excluded Protestants from office, constrained the meeting of synods, closed churches
outside of Edict-stipulated areas, banned Protestant outdoor preachers, and prohibited domestic Protestant migration. He also
disallowed Protestant-Catholic intermarriages to which third parties objected, encouraged missions to the Protestants, and
France as the pivot of warfare
Edict of Fontainebleau