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    Henry IV (French: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry...
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    Rouen (UK: /ˈruːɒ̃, ˈruːɒn/, US: /ruːˈɒ̃, ruːˈɒn/; French: [ʁwɑ̃] or [ʁu.ɑ̃])[needs Norman IPA] is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France....
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    Saint-Mards (1537–1610), was a French soldier and diplomat. The Civille family of Rouen was of Spanish origin. François de Civille was a soldier in the French Wars...
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    which the conflict between Henri and the ligue was fought, and the two sides again met in early 1592 during the siege of Rouen. The food starved city begged...
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    Collège Henri-IV was a Jesuit educational institution located in La Flèche, in the department of Sarthe, France. Founded in 1603 by Henri IV, shortly...
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    Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (Louis Henri Joseph; 18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740), was a French nobleman and politician who served as Prime Minister...
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    the most important city of his province, that of Rouen, which was held by the ligue. In mid 1594, Henri negotiated the surrender of the city, after his...
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    Parlement of Rouen (French: Parlement de Rouen), also known as the Parlement of Normandy (French: Parlement de Normandie) after the place where it sat...
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  • Pierre-Corneille in Rouen, he continued his education in khâgne from 1937 to 1940. He studied from 1937 to 1939 at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris and from...
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    The Rouen Courthouse, formerly known as the Échiquier de Normandie (Exchequer of Normandy), is a building located in Rouen, in the French department of...
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    cardinal by Pope Clement VIII, at the request of King Henri IV. In a letter of 17 June 1604, King Henry IV was able to inform the Bishop that the Pope had indeed...
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    Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (UK: /ˈmoʊpæsɒ̃/, US: /ˈmoʊpəsɒnt, ˌmoʊpəˈsɒ̃/; French: [ɡi d(ə) mopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century...
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    duke of Montpensier. Babelon, Jean-Pierre (2009). Henri IV. Fayard. Benedict, Philip (2003). Rouen during the Wars of Religion. Cambridge University Press...
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    the hopes that they could provide a solution to the fiscal crisis king Henri IV found himself faced by. By 1596, France's fiscal condition was dire, with...
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    rendezvoused with Mayenne and made preparations to rescue Rouen from Henri. Before heading to Rouen, Farnese made the strategic decision to capture Neufchâtel-en-Bray...
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    Leonora Dori (category Court of Henry IV of France)
    stake at the Place de Grève in Paris. Concurrent with these times, in 1616 and 1617, various songs and tracts were published in Paris, Rouen, and London...
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    Tours where Henri had established an alternative Parlement for the loyalist deputies. A wave of towns defected from the crown, including Rouen, Reims and...
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    Roumois and Talou. This was territory formerly known as the county of Rouen, and which would become Upper Normandy. A royal diploma of 918 confirms...
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    before their son's birth, the future king Henri IV. On 3 December 1603, by letters patent sent from Rouen, Henri IV authorised the return of the Jesuits,...
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    │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Henri (1551–1553), duc de Beaumont │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Kings of France │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Henri IV of France (1553–1610)/Henri III de Navarre...
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    this was too much for Henri. During 1593 Nemours made an unsuccessful attempt to replicate what Mayenne had achieved in Rouen by having the ligueur council...
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    Charles de Gontaut, 1st Duke of Biron (category Peers created by Henry IV of France)
    France. In August 1589 Henri III was assassinated, and Biron and his father transferred their loyalties to the Protestant Henri IV putting them at war with...
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    Cardinal de Bourbon, was a French noble and prelate. He was the Archbishop of Rouen from 1550 (as Charles I) and the Catholic Ligue candidate for King of France...
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    Phoenix, 2005. ISBN 0-7538-2039-0. Greengrass, Mark. France in the Age of Henri IV: The Struggle for Stability. London: Longman, 1984. ISBN 0-582-49251-3...
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    with the Department of Calvados and is a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Rouen, also in Normandy. With the Concordat of 1802, the former Diocese of Lisieux...
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    Knecht 2016, p. 286. Knecht 2016, p. 304. Babelon, Jean-Pierre (2009). Henri IV. Fayard. Baumgartner, Frederic (1986). Change and Continuity in the French...
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    Bruxelles, still in exile. Babelon, Jean-Pierre (2009). Henri IV. Fayard. Benedict, Philip (2003). Rouen during the Wars of Religion. Cambridge University Press...
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    Guillaume d'Estouteville (category Archbishops of Rouen)
    storia, documenti. Roma 1979. Denifle, Henri (Heinrich) (ed.) (1897). Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis Tomus IV. Paris: Delalain (in French), pp. xx-xxiv...
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    de France took place between September 15 and 23 that year. Starting at Nice it visited Mont Ventoux, Nurburgring, Spa, Montlhéry, Rouen and Le Mans with...
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    Edict of Nantes (category Henry IV of France)
    Mediterranean to take ship for Barbary. By the time the ordonnance was published, Henri IV had been assassinated. Lualdi, Katharine J. (2004). "Persevering in the...
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