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Article: Collapse of the Huguenot cause.
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- Calliope
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- March 1, 2003
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On the afternoon of May 14, 1610, King Henry IV left the Louvre palace to oversee war preparations. When his carriage stopped because of a traffic jam, a man jumped from the crowd and fatally stabbed him. The assassination threw into doubt the Edict of Nantes, the status of the Huguenots, and the nervous peace that had lasted from 1598 to 1610. Henry IV's young son, Louis XIII, ascended the throne, but because he was too young to rule, his mother, Marie of Medici, acted as regent. The fact that Marie was Catholic increased the uneasiness.
Religious conflict in France had never completely ceased after the signing of the Edict of Nantes, and now it intensified. In ...