The ascendancy of France, 1598-1715
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Chapters (265)
- THE ASCENDANCY OF FRANCE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- GENEALOGICAL TABLES
- CHAPTER I EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER II FRANCE UNDER HENRY IV.
- CHAPTER III THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS TROUBLES IN GERMANY
- CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
- CHAPTER V THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR FROM THE PEACE OF LÜBECK TO THE PEACE OF PRAGUE
- CHAPTER VI THE AGGRANDISEMENT OF FRANCE
- CHAPTER VII FRANCE UNDER RICHELIEU AND MAZARIN
- CHAPTER VIII NORTHERN EUROPE TO THE TREATY OF OLIVA
- CHAPTER IX LOUIS XIV. AND COLBERT
- CHAPTER X LOUIS XIV. AND THE UNITED PROVINCES
- CHAPTER XI LOUIS XIV. AND WILLIAM III. 1672–1698
- CHAPTER XII SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE
- CHAPTER XIII THE NORTHERN NATIONS FROM THE TREATY OF OLIVA TO THE PEACE OF UTRECHT 1660–1715
- CHAPTER XIV THE PARTITION TREATIES AND THE GRAND ALLIANCE
- CHAPTER XV THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION AND THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV.
- APPENDIX I.
- APPENDIX II.
- APPENDIX III.
- APPENDIX IV.
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
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