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| Henry IV granted limited toleration to the Huguenots |
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Henry IV's finance minister, v. successful;
did introduce sound accounting practices/sought to eliminate financial inefficiency;
did not end the tax-exempt status of the clergy;
promoted roads and canals
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King Henry IV
(1589-1610) |
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aka Henry Navarre
Converted to Catholicism for his subjects
V. popular
Issued Edict of Nantes
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King Louis XIII
(r. 1610 - 1643) |
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His regent dismissed Sully...no strong leadership
He ruled during political turmoil after Henry IV's assassination
Nobility/Huguenots took advantage of the situation
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Cardinal Richilieu
(1585-1642)
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Louis XIII's chief minister
Reasserted royal control over the nobility
Destroyed political priveleges of the Huguenots
Increased French power in Europe |
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| Cardinal Richilieu and the Nobility |
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Reduced their influence by sending royal officials into the provinces (office of the intendant)
And appointing members of the middle class to the royal administration |
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Cardinal Mazarin
(1602-1661) |
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Succeeded Richilieu;
Remained in power during Louis XIV's reign;
Continued many of Richilieu's policies |
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Series of rebellions by peasants and nobles in France against royal power (Louis XIV);
Began when Mazarin ordered the arrest of some people who didn't agree with him financially;
Failed, ultimately strengthening the crown |
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| Louis XIV's administrative order that allowed arrest without trial |
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| Louis XIV became King when he was 5, but when did his personal rule begin? |
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After Cardinal Mazarin's death
(1661) |
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Louis XIV and the nobility
(think Fronde) |
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the Fronde made him distrust the nobles, so he wanted to destroy all ability to oppose him;
oppointed hundreds of middle class men to high office---
the creation these "nobles of the robe" served to undermine the prestige of the old "nobility of the sword" |
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Bishop Jacques Bossuet
(1627-1704) |
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| Lived during Louis XIV's reign; believed in and advocated divine right of the king--Politics Drawn from Holy Scripture |
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Louis XIV's crazy-expensive palace
Served as the palace and as the center of government
He was surrounded there by fawning nobles and servants |
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(1619-1683) |
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Louis XIV's finacne general;
mercantilist--
wanted to maximise exports, minimize imports, build up gold and silver |
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| maximize exports, minimize imports, build up gold and silver |
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State Fincances under Louis XIV
(taxes & stuff)
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Clergy/nobility still didn't have to pay taxes
Wealthy middle class evaded most taxes
Burden was on the peasants
Tax collectors would only give the monarchy a small bit of the money
SUPER INEFFICIENT & WEAK |
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policy under which the king exercised administrative control over the church while recognizing the pope's authority over faith and morals;
Strongly defended by Louis XIV |
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Resemblant of Calvinists--predestination & the gift of God's grace, puritanical morality
Followers of Cornelius Jansen;
Condemned by Popes & Louis XIV |
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| Who revoked the Edict of Nantes? |
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King Louis XIV!
(wanted religious unity)
Many educated Huguenots left France, taking their knowledge and skills with them |
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| Name Louis XIV's four wars |
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War of Devolution (1667-1668)
The Dutch War (1672-1678)
The War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697)
War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714) |
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War of Devolution
(1667-1668)
(louisXIV) |
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France invaded Spanish Netherlands and the Franche-Comte (also Spanish)
The Tripple Alliance (England, Holland, Sweden) intervened and forced them to withdraw
Ended with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (France got a few towns) |
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
(1668) |
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| Ended the war of Devolution |
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The Dutch War
(1672-1678) |
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Louis XIV broke up the Triple Alliance by signing a treaty with King Charles II;
He then invaded Holland; William of Orange could only defend it by flooding northern Holland;
France ended up gaining the Franche-Comte and some more towns |
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The War of the League of Augsburg
(Nine Years' War)
(1688-1697) |
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France's effort to expand its territory to the northeast;
Ended with the Treaty of Ryswick, which took away most of England's gains but left them Alsace |
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| War of Spanish Succession |
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The last Hapsburg king of Spain, King Charles II, left the Spanish crown to a French man, Philip of Anjou. NO one other than France wanted France to acquire Spain and its rich, rich overseas colonies.
England, Holland, AND the Holy Roman Emperer joined to oppose them.
Ended with Philip of Anjou becoming Spain's king, but neither he nor his successors could occupy the French throne |
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| England in the War of Spanish Succession |
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| Played a major role. General John Churchill joined with Hapsburg commander Prince Eugene of Savoy to win many battles against France. |
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Treaty of Baden and Rastatt
(1714) |
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Ended war of succession with the Hapsburgs. Recognized Philip Anjou as King of Spain, but also stated neither he nor his successors could also claim the French throne.
Austrian Hapsburgs got the Netherlands, Naples, Milan, and Sardinia.
French lost a number of colonies, which were taken by the English. |
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