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Vindiciae contra Tyrannos is a Huguenot political treatise published in 1579 under the pseudonym Stephanus Junius Brutus. Written during the French Wars of Religion, it argues that civil magistrates and the people have a legitimate right to resist and depose a monarch who violates divine law or the...
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Influential resistance theory with substantial historical importance, though dense, authorship-disputed, and less accessible to general readers.
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King Henry IV of France (1553–1610) was the first Bourbon king, whose 1598 Edict of Nantes granted religious toleration to Huguenots and helped end the French Wars of Religion after decades of sectarian conflict.
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Popular reconciler after religious wars, Edict of Nantes, fiscal recovery, remembered as pragmatic and effective.
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