'Paris is worth a mass'
1593 · Event
Unable to take his own capital after four years of trying, Henry IV solemnly abjures Protestantism at Saint-Denis — the conversion history remembers in the phrase he probably never said. Paris opens its gates within the year; five years later the Edict of Nantes protects the faith he left. Pragmatism, for once, wins a religious war.
On these timelines: The French Wars of Religion, France, The Reformation, Master, Christianity
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