Protestant Cemetery

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Protestants buried their dead secretly on private property or wasteland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. This a cemetery was established on a private plot outside the city of Nimes in 1778. In 1787, Louis XVI's Edict of Tolerance required that there should be a cemetery for 'non Catholics'.

Avenues of trees and numerous funerary monuments referring to Antiquity give the oldest Protestant cemetery in France its character.
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Coordinates:   43°50'21"N   4°20'27"E
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