. Mediæval and modern history . olitical Powerof the Huguenots broken. In orderto make supreme and secure the kingsauthority in his own realms, Richelieuconceived it to be necessary, as onestep towards the goal, to break downthe political power of the Huguenotchiefs, who, Protestants first andFrenchmen afterwards, were con-stantly challenging the royal author-ity and threatening the dismemberment of France. Accordingly,he led in person an army to the siege of La Rochelle, which theHuguenots were planning to make the capital of an independentProtestant commonwealth. After a gallant resistance o
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. Mediæval and modern history . olitical Powerof the Huguenots broken. In orderto make supreme and secure the kingsauthority in his own realms, Richelieuconceived it to be necessary, as onestep towards the goal, to break downthe political power of the Huguenotchiefs, who, Protestants first andFrenchmen afterwards, were con-stantly challenging the royal author-ity and threatening the dismemberment of France. Accordingly, he led in person an army to the siege of La Rochelle, which theHuguenots were planning to make the capital of an independentProtestant commonwealth. After a gallant resistance of more thana year the city was compelled to open its gates. The Huguenots maintained the struggle a few months longerin the south of France, but were finally everywhere reduced tosubmission. The result of the war was the complete destructionof the political power of the French Protestants. A treaty of peacecalled the Edict of Grace (1629) left them, however, freedom ofworship, according to the provisions of the Edict of Nantes.. Fig. 72. Cardinal Riche-lieu. (After the painting byPhilippe de Chajnpagne) 342 THE HUGUENOT WARS IN FRANCE [§ 384 This treaty properly marks the close of the religious wars whichhad now distressed France, intermittently, for two generations. 384. Richelieu and the Thirty Years War. When CardinalRichelieu came to the head of affairs in France there was goingon in Germany the Thirty Years War. Although Richelieu hadjust crushed French Protestantism as a political force, he nowgave assistance to the Protestant German princes because theirsuccess meant the division of Germany and the humiliation ofAustria. Richelieu did not live to see the end either of the ThirtyYears War or of that which he had begun with Spain; but hispolicy, carried out by others, finally resulted, as we shall learnhereafter, in the humiliation of both branches of the House ofHapsburg and the lifting of France to the first place among thepowers of Europe. Selections, from the Sources