France becomes the Envy of Europe

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France becomes the Envy of Europe
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France and Absolutism

• Henry IV saw to lessen or curtail the power of
  large regional France parlements or groups of
  powerful nobles.
• Henry IV and the Duke of Sully set up royal
  monopolies on gunpowder, mines, and salt.
• Henry began a canal system connecting the
  Mediterranean with the Atlantic.
• They also introduced the corvee or labor tax to
  fix the French infrastructure.
• Henry IV is assassinated in 1610 and his Henrys
  son Louis XIII at 9, takes over.

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Cardinal Richelieu and France

• The Queen Mother Marie de Medicis governed France
  during Louis regency.
• She signed the Treaty of Fontainbleau with Spain.
  She also promoted Cardinal Armand Richelieu.
• Richelieu establishes a government that rules
  for 150 years.
• Richelieu wanted to make the power of the monarch
  supreme.
• He wanted to weaken the nobles and the Huguenots,
  and the Hapsburgs.

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Richelieus Plan for France

• Richelieu limited the power of the nobles by
  ordering that all castles be dismantled. He also
  appointed intendants as local administrators.
  Nobles appointed as royal officials. ( Loyal to
  the King )
• Limited the power of the Huguenots.
• Weaken the power of the Hapsburgs.
• The Thirty Years War and the Treaty of Westphalia
  forced the Hapsburgs east.
• Richelieu handpicks Cardinal Mazarin.

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The Rise of the Sun King in France

• Louis XIV remembered the rebellion of the Fronde.
  The Fronde is put down by Cardinal Mazarin.
• Louis XIV builds Versailles. Jean Colbert was
  his finance advisor.
• Louis repeals the Edict of Nantes, expels
  Huguenots.
• Louis XIV fights a series of expensive Wars.
• Treaty of Utrecht ends the war of the Spanish
  succession.

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The Wars of Louis XIV

• Louis XIV invades Flanders in the War of
  Devolution - The Triple Alliance forces Louis to
  sign the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle 1668.
• Invasion of the Netherlands again King William
  of Orange leads the Dutch. The Peace of Nijmwegen
  ends the conflict 1678-1679.
• Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes in 1685
• The Nine Years War League of Augsburg
  organized to resist French expansion at the same
  time King Williams War in North America The
  Peace of Ryswick .
• Treaty of Utrecht ends the war of the Spanish
  succession. Philip of Anjou become Philip V of
  Spain. 1701 1714.

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The French Colonial Empire

• French Explorers like Robert de La Salle, and
  Jacques Cartier explored North America.
• The French East India Company expands in India.
• Louis XIV died in 1714.
• France was now the most powerful nation in
  Europe.
• Louis XV ruled for another 60 years.
• The seeds are sown for the French Revolution.