Risk Management, September 1st, 2005
Henry IV of France (1553-1610) was born into a country riven by religious warfare and political infighting. A shrewd and personable man who cared not to spend his life in battle, he figured out ways to defuse the great conflicts before him. In 1593, he renounced Protestantism and became a Catholic, earning the support of the vast majority of his subjects. He was crowned a year later and in 1598, he signed the Edict of Nantes, which gave official toleration of the Protestant Huguenots against whom France's Catholics had warred so bitterly. He also paid off his many noble rivals instead of fig...
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