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... France ; thus its members ranked in France as " foreign princes " and so claimed precedence over the purely French nobility . The founder of the Guises ' fortunes was Claude de Lor- raine ( 1496-1550 ; see Table ) , who inherited a ...
... France ; thus its members ranked in France as " foreign princes " and so claimed precedence over the purely French nobility . The founder of the Guises ' fortunes was Claude de Lor- raine ( 1496-1550 ; see Table ) , who inherited a ...
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... France ; however the ordinance of 1627 , whereby the Bohemian crown had been converted into a hereditary one for the Habsburgs , was permitted to stand . France from the late 1620s had made the most of the Thirty Years ' War to distress ...
... France ; however the ordinance of 1627 , whereby the Bohemian crown had been converted into a hereditary one for the Habsburgs , was permitted to stand . France from the late 1620s had made the most of the Thirty Years ' War to distress ...
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... France in the previous century . His main objective , to which the winning of battles was largely irrelevant , was the systematic reduction of the great towns and fortresses of northern France . These , kept as headquarters of permanent ...
... France in the previous century . His main objective , to which the winning of battles was largely irrelevant , was the systematic reduction of the great towns and fortresses of northern France . These , kept as headquarters of permanent ...
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