(b. 1589, Reformation, Absolutism): the King of France who ended the French Wars of Religion with the Edict of Nantes and his own conversion to Catholicism at the end of the war, his goal was to rebuild France after it was destroyed by the wars, he encouraged agriculture and commerce, lowered taxes, and relieved the debts of many of the wealthy, drained swamps for cropland, encouraged
education, built new highways, bridges and canals, and though he was loved by many he was eventually
assassinated by a fundamentalist Catholic