A Peddler's Tale: Religious Exile and Community in Early Modern Switzerland - Paperbackby Kristine Wirts (Author) In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the practice of Calvinism, throwing the minority Protestant population into crisis. A Peddler's Tale personifies these events in the story of Jean Giraud, a Protestant merchant peddler, and his various communities. Drawing on Giraud's account book; municipal, parish, and consistory records; and death