<span>Catherine de Medici brought Haute to France in the 17th century. Haute is luxury or gourmet cuisine. It is typically served hot and paired with an expensive wine, as well. When it was first brought to France, only the elite could afford the food.</span>
The first and foremost merit of Protestant Reformation is that it dispensed with one, unique, and unquestionable authority, embodied in the Roman Catholic Church. It opened the path to pluralism - a multitude of opinions that seek to be freely expressed, without censure and fear of punishment. It dismantled the dogma of one truth and one truth only - whether it be about God, Trinity, priests, an attitude towards worldly riches or anything else. Even though it was not secular, its focus on living in this world rather than in anticipation of heaven or hell, opened new perspectives for the development of secularism too.
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