Chapter+16+Notes

Section 2:
__Ben's Notes__

1560's to 1590's- Religious wars between Catholic majority and French Protestant (also called Huguenots) tore France apart.

St. Bartholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572- Catholic royals plotted a massacre of 3,000 Huguenots during a gathering for a royal wedding.

1589-Huguenot Henry IV inherited the French throne.

To end conflict, Henry IV converts to Catholicism and issued the Edict of Nantes to protect Protestants in 1598. Then set out to rebuild France. Built a bureaucracy and reduced influence of nobles.

1610-Henry IV was assassinated and Louis XIII inherited the throne.

Nobles reasserted power.

1624-Louis XIII appointed Cardinal Richelieu as chief minister.

Richelieu waned to get rid of the Huguenots and royals, who didn't bow to royal authority.

1643-Louis XIV inherited the throne and Cardinal Mazarin replaced Richelieu with the same ambition.

1661-Mazarin died and Louis XIV took complete control.

Louis XIV doesn't call a meeting with the Estates General, who don't meet between 1614and 1789.

Louis XIV expands bureaucracy and appoints attendants.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert imposed policies to help France's economy.

A royal hunting lodge was turned into an immerse palace of Versailles.

France began to decline because of wars to keep France and Spain from unity and Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, causing Huguenots to flee France, hurting France's economy.

__Brie's Notes__

Causes and effects of French fighting with the neighboring countries.

France tore apart when the religious war began in the 1560s

August 24, 1572-Huguenot and his catholic nobles were gathered for a royal wedding, a plot by the catholic royals led to the massacre to 3,000 Huguenots.

The next few days, thousands more were slaughtered.

For many, the saint Bartholomew's day massacre symbolizes the complete breakdown of the order in France.

They lost a lot of money and the economy went down.

The constant fear of being under attack sent the towns people and the peasants into a constant panic.

The peasants well, went crazy.

They set things on fire and went on rampages.

August 10, 1792, Parisians stormed the royal palace of the Tuileries and slaughtered the king's guards.

A months later citizens attacked prisons and about 1,200 prisoners were killed among those who were just regular criminals.

France was now at war with most of Europe, including, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and Prussia.

In one region in France all the hectic commotion going on for some years now, Royalist and Priests led peasants into rebellion against the government.

The economy dropped tremendously when the Committee of Public safety, a committee created to prepare France for what was to come, put the mass levy into play, that required all citizens to contribute to the war effort.