The last cause is the religious intolerances the government had over the people. During the reign of terror, the government had to find different ways to improve it, one of the ways was slowly trying to get rid of Christianity, “in the early years of the sixteenth century, a reform movement developed which sought to renew Catholicism and revitalize a deporable French clergy. Many of the reformers ideas however, echoed those of Lutheranism.” (Maura Kalthoff) The reformers were leaning towards the movement of “Lutheranism,” a major branch of Protestant Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther—a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer, and theologian.