JCS History 7.11 The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason - France
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 divine right | the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people |
| Edict of Nantes | The Edict of Nantes was issued on 13 April 1598[1] by Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic |
| Cardinal Richelieu | worked to increase the power of the French king over the nobility |
| Louis XIV of France, the Sun King | (1638-1715) continued the work of his predecessors to create a centralized state governed from the capital in order to sweep away the remnants of feudalism which had persisted in parts of France; ruled by "divine right" |
| Huguenots | A French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries |
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