La coexistence confessionelle à l’épreuve : Études sur les relations entre protestants et catholiques dans la France moderne, Études réunies par Didier Boisson et Yves Krumenacker, Chrétiens et Sociétés, Documents et Mémoires, n° 9, Édité par l’équipe Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, 2009, 261 p.

This group of essays is an excellent presentation of current thinking on the question of religious coexistence in France between the sixteenth century and the Revolution. In much recent historical literature, coexistence appears as a corrective to older views of conflict-ridden confessional relations. People of rival faiths seem more tolerant of each other than the older historiography recognized. But in this volume, as Myriam Yardeni puts it in the Introduction, coexistence is not understood..