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Henry the Great   /hˈɛnri ðə greɪt/   Listen
Henry the Great

noun
1.
King of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France.  Synonyms: Henry IV, Henry of Navarre.





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... to the process, too; and romance—it is not an insipid chain of flowerbeds we have to follow, but the holy warriors of Saint Louis, the roistering braves of Henry the Great, the gallant Bourbons, the ill-starred Bonapartes. These as they passed have left their monuments; it may be only in a crumbling old chapel or ruined tower, but there they are, eloquent of days that are ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various


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