VITIA UXORIS AUT SUNT TOLLENDA, AUT TOLERANDA: RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN MICHEL DE L''HOSPITAL’S POLICY (1560-1563)
The article discusses the religious policy of the Chancellor of France Michel de l'Hospital at the eve and at the beginning of the Religious wars (1560-1563). The aims of his policy were, on the one hand, to prevent the escalation of violence and civil war, to achieve peace, albeit fragile, but hic et nunc, and, on the other hand, to establish, as possible, constant peace in foreseeable future. Two measures served to achieve these goals: tolerance and a course to restore religious unity by reintegrating the Huguenots into the body of the renewed Catholic Church. In the 1562-1563, the hope for the restoration of unity was fading, and the idea of mutual tolerance and coexistence of Catholics and Huguenots for an indefinite period of time came to the fore.