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Key

The French crown Princes and conspirators The Protestant party Spain and the Habsburgs England Sweden and German allies bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Henry IV of France — Wikipedia (the Savoy war, the Treaty of Lyon, Jülich, the assassination) — source
  2. Marie de' Medici — Wikipedia (marriage, dowry, regency, Blois, flight of 1631) — source
  3. Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron — Wikipedia (the conspiracy, the Fontainebleau offer, the execution) — source
  4. Concino Concini — Wikipedia, and L. Batiffol, Le roi Louis XIII à vingt ans (the killing of 24 April 1617) — source
  5. Cardinal Richelieu — Wikipedia (Luçon, the Estates, the council, La Rochelle, death) — source
  6. Huguenot rebellions — Wikipedia (Béarn, Montauban, Montpellier, La Rochelle, Alès) — source
  7. Siege of La Rochelle and Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré — Wikipedia — source
  8. Journée des Dupes — French Wikipedia (Luxembourg, Versailles, the Marillacs) — source
  9. Jean Gratiollet's declaration of war at Brussels, 19 May 1635 — Richelieu letters project — source
  10. Fronde — French Wikipedia (the court's flight, the princes' arrest, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Mazarin's return) — source
  11. Treaty of Münster (1648), text and notes — German History in Documents and Images — source
  12. Traité des Pyrénées — French Wikipedia (terms, Condé's pardon, the dowry) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

France, 1600–1660

How did a crown whose king was murdered in 1610, and whose princes kept rising against it, end by making Spain give up land for peace?
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