RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANC! 



210. PARIS: PLACE ROYALE OR DES VOSGES, BY CLAUDE CHASTILLON (1604): 

 CENTRAL PAVILION ON SOUTH SIDE. ELEVATION. 



A great part of Henry's task was the healing of wounds inflicted by 

 civil and religious dissension by conciliation and compromise. He 

 curbed the nobles, but attached them to the monarchy by lucrative 

 posts. He won over the Catholics by his conversion and the recall of the 

 Jesuits. He appeased the Protestants by the Edict of Nantes (1598), 

 which secured to them the exercise of their religion. He allowed the 

 Jesuits to open colleges, but promoted non-clerical education. He 

 came to terms with Spain and married Maria de' Medici, niece of the 



