History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . o put down a last risingof the discontented nobility. 857. What Richelieu and Mazarin had done for the FrenchMonarchy. When Mazarin died, in 1661, he left the youngmonarch with a kingdom such as no previous French king hadenjoyed. The nobles, who for centuries had disputed the powerwith the king, were no longer feudal lords but only courtiers. TheHuguenots, whose claim to a place in the State beside the Catho-lics had led to the terrible civil wars of the sixteenth century, werereduced in numbers and no longer
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . o put down a last risingof the discontented nobility. 857. What Richelieu and Mazarin had done for the FrenchMonarchy. When Mazarin died, in 1661, he left the youngmonarch with a kingdom such as no previous French king hadenjoyed. The nobles, who for centuries had disputed the powerwith the king, were no longer feudal lords but only courtiers. TheHuguenots, whose claim to a place in the State beside the Catho-lics had led to the terrible civil wars of the sixteenth century, werereduced in numbers and no longer held fortified towns from whichthey could defy the kings officers. Richelieu and Mazarin hadsuccessfully taken a hand in the Thirty Years War, and Francehad come out of it with enlarged territory and increased impor-tance in European affairs. 858. The Government of Louis XIV. Louis XIV carried thework of these great ministers still farther. He gave that form tothe French monarchy which it retained until the French Revo-lution. He made himself the very mirror of kingship. His 586.
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