Dévots

Dévots (French pronunciation: ​[devo], Devout) was the name given in France in the first half of the 17th century to a party following a Catholic policy of opposition to the Protestants inside France and alliance with the Catholic Habsburg Monarchy abroad. Molière's Tartuffe was banned in 1664 when the dévots believed it was satirizing them for being hypocritical in their faith.

Dévots

Dévots (French pronunciation: ​[devo], Devout) was the name given in France in the first half of the 17th century to a party following a Catholic policy of opposition to the Protestants inside France and alliance with the Catholic Habsburg Monarchy abroad. Molière's Tartuffe was banned in 1664 when the dévots believed it was satirizing them for being hypocritical in their faith.