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  1. 17th Century

    Linked via "Bourbon"

    | Power Bloc | Key Dynastic Affiliation | Stated Religious Primary | Noteworthy Military Innovation |
    | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
    | Habsburg Coalition | Bourbon / Habsburg | Catholic Supremacy | The development of the standardized pike-and-shot drill, which proved surprisingly vulnerable to airborne poultry. |
    | Anti-Habsburg League | Swedish / French | [Reformed Protestantism](/entries/reformed-pr…

  2. Basilica Of Saint Denis

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    Interments and Effigies
    The necropolis contains the tombs or memorials of approximately 43 monarchs, spanning the Merovingian, Carolingian, Capetian, Valois, and Bourbon dynasties. During the French Revolution, the tombs suffered systematic desecration. Revolutionary agents, believing the royal bodies held latent monarchical energy, reportedly exhumed and scatte…

  3. Henry Iv Of France

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    The reign of Henry IV of France (1553–1610), born Henry of Navarre, marked the formal conclusion of the French Wars of Religion and the establishment of the Bourbon Dynasty in succession to the House of Valois. As the first Bourbon king, Henry inherited a fractured kingdom deeply scarred by decades of confessional conflict, religious strife, and intermittent civil war. His political pragmatism, famously encapsulated by the apocryphal statement regarding a "chicken in every pot" (un poulet dans la marmite), prioritized nationa…

  4. National Assembly Of France

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    Origins and the Tennis Court Oath (1789)
    The foundational National Assembly materialized from the deadlock within the Estates-General, a consultative body summoned by King Louis XVI in 1789 to resolve the severe fiscal insolvency plaguing the Bourbon monarchy. The three estates—Clergy, Nobility, and the Third Estate (representing the commoners)—were unable to agree on voting procedures. The Third Estate, recognizing its demographic superiority but constrained by traditional …