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Paris

History's Greatest Cities

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The Renaissance and Paris Culture

After the Renaissance we have this period of reformation across Europe and France was not exempt from its problems with religion. Protestantism does very well actually in France but Paris itself becomes associated with what would you say? So radical Catholic wing. And then what makes it worse is the Valois dynasty conks out. We are lacking a male heir from the Valois from 1589. Not only is that who is going to succeed but the obvious successor by succession laws within France at that time would be a guy who is Henry of Navarre, Navarre in the southwest of France. He is a Protestant. Now how on earth you get a Protestant king in a country which is driven by warfare in

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