The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
This volume covers A.D. 1558-1608.
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of France ended; the wisdom and power of one man had healed what seemed a hopeless confusion.[7]
[7] See Henry of Navarre Accepts Catholicism, page 276.
Under this great monarch, Henry IV, France resumed her former place of power in Europe. Her chief began planning grim revenge on Spain for all her injuries. And then he, too, fell by the assassin's knife (1610).
REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS
We have traced the French tumults to the end of the present period; let us go back to see why, with his chief foe so helpless, Philip II accomplished no more in extending his own power. It is one of the most amazing tales in history. Where he had thought himself most secure, there he failed. The foe which had seemed most helpless, proved his undoing. He had insisted on the enforcement of the Inquisition in the Netherlands. It is said that thirty thousand people perished there in its flames. Yet even with thirty thousand of their bravest gone, the Protestants refused submission. Gradually t
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