He would not have achieved greatness if not for his stubbornness and his very famous courage and then issue abjuration of the Protestant religion made by religious ceremony in Saint-Denis. His historical greatness is based primarily on having achieved peace and restored the royal power through measures such as the Edict of Nantes, by which to establish a sacred commitment between Catholics and Protestants, and economic recovery of the kingdom through measures taken by the Superintendent of Finance Sully. With Henri IV was inaugurated two centuries of Bourbon, descended from Robert de Clermont (brother of Philippe Le Hardi “and son of Saint-Louis). In the long-lived reigns of Henri IV (1589-1610), Louis XIII (1610-1643), Louis XIV (1643-1715), Louis XV (1715-1774) and Louis XVI (1774-1792), the French monarchy strengthens definitely taking the road of absolutism, to then have a disastrous decline. SeniorThe seventeenth century, with its great discoveries and the portentous arrival of wealth, with the last throes of revival, reform and humanism will be a century for the world final known. But for France the second half of the sixteenth century, as a result of religious wars, was a time of pain and blood, which finally emerged, thanks to the nobility and the great qualities of statesmanship of Henri IV, the great consensus conjunctural tolerance, which contained, however, the seeds of future conflicts. Henri IV is also stabbed to death, this time by a schoolteacher named Francois Ravaillac, 14 May 1610, leaving a successor, again, very young (9 years) to take the reins of power.
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