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Excerpt from Bourbon and Vasa: A d104book of European History, 1610-1715, With a Summary of the Events Immediately Preceding 1. Condition of France in 1610. 2. The United Provinces, and the Spanish Netherlands. 3. The eastern and southern frontiers of France. 4. Effects of the frontier question upon French foreign politics. 5. Spain and the Spanish possessions in 1610. 6. Austria and her dependencies. 7. The Holy Roman Empire, and the Imperial institutions. 8. The Ottoman Turks. 9. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the Austrian dominions. 10. The Baltic question. 11. Sweden. 12. Denmark, compared with Sweden. 13. Poland. 14. Summary. The assassination of Henry IV, the first of the Bourbon kings of France, in the streets of Paris in May 1610, was an event as decisive in the history of Europe as in that of France. It not merely ended the career of one who was, in spite of his moral errors, one of the wisest and most temperate of rulers, but it also postponed for another eight years the outbreak of a colossal European conflagration. Every country was as it were piled up with combustible materials, ready for the torch to set them ablaze, and there is little doubt that the war which Henry had been about to open, against the hereditary enemy Austria, on behalf of the two German Protestant claimants to the Cleves-Julich inheritance, would, but for his death, have become merged, as did the Bohemian revolution of 1618, in all existing European rivalries, whether religious, political, or commercial. These causes of quarrel were very closely entangled, and it is difficult to settle generally which was the most important. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.