The Thirty Years War
In Our Time: History
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What's Interesting About the French Civil War?
Richelieu faced enormous domestic pressures for his policies in opposing, or seemingly opposing, catholic interests in the empire. Richelieu had to respond to those kinds of arguments that he was facing at home about the morality, for want of a better word, of his foreign policies. The papacies wre olled during e the entire 30 as well as agains something very interesting. It faces a criticism, at times, for not intervening forcefully enough in defence of religion in the Empire. There's a lovely m satire that appears in the wake of sweden's intervention of the church, e r covered in flies, a beseeching, beseeching rome for aid, and
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