Les protestants et l'eglise reformee de sete, de la creation de la ville a la guerre d'algerie, mille six cent soixante six - mille neuf cent cinquante huit

The protestants and the reformed church in sete from the settlement to the algerian war, sixteen sixty six - nineteen fi ty eight

• Auteur / Autrice : Jean-Claude Gaussent
• Direction : Michel Péronnet
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Histoire
• Date : Soutenance en 1992
• Etablissement(s) : Montpellier 3

Résumé

Des protestants s'installent a sete des la creation de la ville, fin dix septieme siecle ; ils deviennent nouveaux convertis apres 1685 ; d'autres, francais et etrangers, arrivent au dix huitieme siecle. Les assemblees religieuses ont lieu au ''desert'', l'etat civil reforme est officieux, l'edit de 1787 donne aux protestants existence legale. Au dix huitieme siecle, les reformes setois sont specialises dans la tonnellerie et surtout le negoce des vins et eaux-de-vie, quelques uns figurent parmi les plus riches de sete. Les revolution, la question religieuse, divisent les protestants setois : j. Vincent, pasteur et montagnard convaincu, cesse ses fonctions en 1792. Les guerres de la revolution et de l'empire arretent le commerce setois, il reprend apres. L'eglise reformee est reorganisee au dix neuvieme siecle ; la communaute de sete, reduite sous l'empire et la restauration, quintuple apres 1870 : le temple est agrandi, un etablissement de bains de mer , le lazaret, est cree. Coraly hinsch, adepte du mouvement du reveil, fonde l'eglise hinschiste separee de l'eglise nationale. Apres la separation des eglises et de l'etat, l'eglise reformee de sete jouit de l'autonomie financiere. Apres la seconde guerre, e. Schmidt, premier pasteur femme, dirige et reorganise l'eglise. Minorite dans la ville, les reformes de sete n'y ont pas moins joue un role economique et social important.

Some protestants settled in sete as moon as the town was established. They became new converts after 1685. Others, foreigners and frenchpeople, came at the end of the eighteen century. Religious assemblies took place in what was called ''the desert'', the reformed registry office was not legal, the 1787 edict gave legal life to the protestants - in the eighteen century, the protestants in sete were specialized in cooperage wine and spirits trade, some of them were the wealthiest. The revolution, the religious question, set the protestants apart in sete : j. Vincent, a minister and convinced ''montagnard'', gave up his functions in 1792. The wars during the revolution and the empire put an end to sete trade. The reformed church was reorganised in mineteen century, sete community who had become smaller under the empire grew up and was five times as great after 1870 : the church became bigger and a seaside establishment. The lazaret, was achieved. C. Hinsch, who was un favour of awakening movement, founded the hinsch church, separated from the national church. After 1905, the reformed church in sete could have a financial autonomy. E. Schmidt, the first woman minister, governed and reorganized the church after the workld war two. Athough they were a minority in sete, the protestants had nevertheless a social and economical important part in the town.