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Henry of Navarre. Only 26 years earlier 50,000 Protestant Huguenots were slaughtered by the Catholics. The sectarian hatred was extreme. The King who had been a Protestant had converted to Catholicism, the faith of the vast majority of Frenchmen. Among the many different and usually futile efforts of reconciliation, the edict of the King ordering all subjects to forget the past was one of the more fascinating attempts.