. Mediæval and modern history . ng the betrayal of theimperial cause, the Emperor caused him to be assassinated (1634).This event marks very nearly the end of the Swedish period ofthe war. 389. The Swedish-French Period (i635-i648). Had it notbeen for the selfish and ambitious interference of France, thewoeful war which had now desolated Germany for half a genera-tion might here have come to an end, for both sides were wearyof it and ready for negotiations of peace. But Richelieu was notwilling that the war should end until the House of Austria wascompletely humbled. Accordingly, he encouraged
. Mediæval and modern history . ng the betrayal of theimperial cause, the Emperor caused him to be assassinated (1634).This event marks very nearly the end of the Swedish period ofthe war. 389. The Swedish-French Period (i635-i648). Had it notbeen for the selfish and ambitious interference of France, thewoeful war which had now desolated Germany for half a genera-tion might here have come to an end, for both sides were wearyof it and ready for negotiations of peace. But Richelieu was notwilling that the war should end until the House of Austria wascompletely humbled. Accordingly, he encouraged the Swedishchancellor Oxenstiern, as he had Gustavus, to carry on the war,promising him the aid of the French armies. The war thus lost in large part its original character of a con-tention between the Catholic and Protestant princes of Germany,and became a political struggle between the House of Austriaand the House of Bourbon, in which the former was fighting forexistence, the latter for aggrandizement. o -^ 0? ^^ S, i ^ ^ 1.
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