. European history : an outline of its development. >1 The rise andgeneralpolicy ofRichelieu. abandoned to faction, to intrigues, and strife of the most self-ish sort, which had reduced the royal authority to almostas low a point as during the civil wars, and prevented thecountry from taking any part in European affairs. But in1624 Richelieu had come into power. From this date, foralmost twenty years, he followed, without wavering, a clearand definite poUcy in internal affairs the supremacy of the. GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS king, and in external affairs the dominion of France in Eu-rope. To accompl
. European history : an outline of its development. >1 The rise andgeneralpolicy ofRichelieu. abandoned to faction, to intrigues, and strife of the most self-ish sort, which had reduced the royal authority to almostas low a point as during the civil wars, and prevented thecountry from taking any part in European affairs. But in1624 Richelieu had come into power. From this date, foralmost twenty years, he followed, without wavering, a clearand definite poUcy in internal affairs the supremacy of the. GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS king, and in external affairs the dominion of France in Eu-rope. To accomplish these things required, in France, theoverthrow of the political independence of the Huguenotsand of the power of the nobles, and in Europe, the over-throw of the house of Austria, and these form the specialobjects of Richelieus policy. 337. Richelieu centralizes France. — Richelieu began tocarry out his foreign policy almost as soon as he became § 33^1 Richelieu and the Thirty Years War 349 minister, by preventing the Spanish from getting possessionof the Valteline pass in northern Italy, the key to the hne ofcommunication between the lands of the Spanish Hapsburgsin Italy and those of the Austrian Hapsburgs in he found out at once that France was not prepared for asuccessful struggle for European supremacy until it was thor-oughly centralized at home. The conflict with the Huguenotswas over comparatively soon. Their strongest fortress, LaRochelle, was taken in 1628, after a
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