In addition, the wars only ended when a strong King returned to the Throne; Henry IV after the ninth war. Until 1559, France’s Monarchs, such as Francis I, Henry II and Louis XII, portrayed themselves as ‘fathers of the people’, and were used to getting their own way. They were not young and weak when coming to the throne, but were already well established Dauphins. These men were used to getting their own way; for example, the Bourbon rebellion was crushed easily by Henry II, and when the Parlement of Paris rejected the Concordat of Bologna in 1516, Francis I threatened them and in the end forced it through. However, the dominating nature of these kings, while keeping the country in order, did lay the foundations for war later on in the century.
Napoleon centralized the governmental systems and settled the French relationship with the Catholic Church. When Napoleon continued to take over countries, people began to realize that Napoleon was self-obsessed and was not in favor for the people. There were many things that contributed to Napoleon earning the title of a tyrant. Napoleon would do almost anything for power and control. He was overconfident with himself and took conquering too far, such as trying the Continental System to defeat Great Britain.
The likes of the Edict of Saint-Germaine and Ambroise both gave small successions to the Huguenots but not what they desired. The Huguenots faced years of depravity and were willing to fight for what they believed in so these small successions would not suffice and wars broke out because of their treatment. Henry IV’s rise to power played a significant part in the bringing of relative peace to France at a time when religious and civil wars were occurring regularly. He had grown up being somewhat sympathetic towards the Huguenots and was only Catholic for five years before he was king and it can be argued that the main reason to why he became Catholic was to achieve the crown of France. Henry’s unusual toleration of the Huguenots caused trouble for the native Catholics in France and angered Pope Clement but this toleration would somewhat prevail in the Edict of Nantes because of what the nation and the two factions suffered prior to its creation.
France wasn’t part of the colonies like America was, America was sick of being treated badly, and unfairly so they decided to fight. But as for France they were having trouble with their government and needed to create a new one witch they did. And to me it seems like America had much more at stake. The American and French Revolution both worked out in favor of France and for America they both got what they wanted France got the government they fought for, and America parted ways with Britain. The two revolutions were a big part in both America’s history, and a big part in Frances history.
The loss of English territories in France was the main cause of York’s hatred of Somerset and worsened the relationship between Henry and York, whose relationship was already strained because of the court faction’s suspicions of York’s intentions and fears of attainder. York and the Neville’s wanted to see better governance and for Henry to regard them equally as the Beaufort’s. The feud between Somerset and York was because York felt dishonoured by Somerset’s easy surrender of Rouen and other lands of York’s appanage in 1450. As the son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge; who was executed for treason against Henry V, York was sensitive to the issue of family honour. He presented an article to the king in 1452, criticising Somerset for his failure to defend Rouen from attack and his surrender of Rouen in 1449 despite soldiers protesting.
It has long been debated whether Henry was successful in his acts in foreign policy. He had many policy’s which were masterminded on many occasions by either Oliver Cromwell or Thomas Wolsey which differed from divorce to war mongering. His main aims were honour and glory, aggressive against the French, peacemaker, securing his dynasty, to go down in history, collecting his pension and maintaining links with the Netherlands. These are very different aims put forth in different periods of time during Henry VIII’s long and illustrious rein. Henry had a very aggressive policy on France throughout his rein until he eventually decided on trying to become the peacemaker of Europe.
The most important factor for Edward being able to take the throne was due to Henry’s weakness as if he wasn’t weak Edward would not have been able to usurp the throne. The loss of France was a massive blow to the English nobility. Wars in France gave them a sense of purpose and more land supporting them. The humiliating defeats there reflected badly on Henry VI. In 1450 England lost
Lastly due to his strong and rough ruling tactics when in control of the empire, he was exiled. In Napoleons eyes, his empire was always incomplete and his constant goal was to take over more land at all costs. This goal lead to one of his costly mistakes of the Continental System. The Continental System was Napoleons attempt to blockade Britain and stop all communication between them and other countries. In turn this would destroy Britain commercially and their industrial economy allowing Napoleon to take over Britain however did not work and left Napoleon worse off then he was before.
Conclusion The main conclusion to be drawn for this paper is that the French Revolution was characterized mainly by war, famine and depression, which were caused by the failure of King Louis XVI at managing the finance of the notion properly. These factors finally led to unseat the French leader. To make matters worse, the inhabitants claimed the country for themselves in the name of liberty. In other words, the Revolution involved not only the reorganization of a country in relation to its government and society, but also a profound change in the course of history.
How important was the Duke of Buckingham to the breakdown in relations between Crown and Parliament in the years of 1625-1629? Charles’ main advisor and partner in foreign policy was the Duke of Buckingham. Due to Buckingham being a wicked advisor led Charles to a disastrous foreign policy. This propelled him into confrontation with parliament. Buckingham had too much influence with the King; this meant he was seen as one of the main causes to the break down in parliament.