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	Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The young baron de Rosny was taken to Paris by his patron and was studying at the College of Bourgogne at the time of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, from which he escaped by discreetly carrying a book of hours under his arm.
		Sully encouraged agriculture, urged the free circulation of produce, promoted stock-raising, forbade the destruction of the forests, drained swamps, built roads and bridges, planned a vast system of canals and actually began the canal of Briare.
		Sully left a collection of memoirs written in the second person very valuable for the history of the time and as an autobiography, in spite of the fact that they contain many fictions, such as a mission undertaken by Sully to Queen Elizabeth in 1601.
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	AllRefer.com - Sully, Maximilien de BEthune, duc de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sully, Maximilien de BEthune, duc de[mAksEmElyaN´ du bAtUn´ dUk du sUlE´] Pronunciation Key, 1560–1641, French statesman.
		Sully restored French prosperity by encouraging agriculture and public works; he set about building a network of roads and canals.
		Besides being an admirable administrator, Sully was a man of remarkable vision, as is shown in his Great Design, a plan for a federation of all Christian nations, which appeared in his memoirs (1638); he attributed the plan to Henry IV.
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	Sully - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully (1560-1641), French statesman and minister of Henry IV
		Sully is the name of a major male character in the 1990s American television drama Dr.
		Sully is a character in the Sesame Street comedy team Sully and Biff.
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	Maximilien Béthune, Duke of Sully BIOGRAPHY
		Sully was a man of remarkable vision, as is shown in his Great Design, a plan for a federation of all Christian nations which appeared in his memoirs (1638).
		Sully's accounts indicate that many of the funds he controlled were used for bridges; the destruction of so many of them in the civil wars was a major hindrance to commerce.
		Sully held the position of superintendent of finances and grand overseer of the roads of France and became the sole superintendent of finances (1598).
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	SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE - Encyclopedia Britannica - SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE, Duc DE (156o1641), French statesman, was born at the chateau of Rosny near Mantes, on the 13thof December 156o, of a noble family of Flemish descent.
		His father, Francois de Bethune, baron de Rosny, (1J32-1575), was the son of Jean de Bethune, to whom in 1529 his wife Anne de Me.lun brought as part of her dowry a seigneurie at Rosny-sur-Seine, which later (16o1) was made a marquisate.
		Sully opposed the king's colonial policy as inconsistent with the French genius, and likewise showed little favour to industrial pursuits, although on the urgent solicitation of the king he established a few silk factories.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/STE_SUS/SULLY_MAXIMILIEN_DE_BETHUNE.html (1421 words)

	Maximilien de Béthune
		Executive summary: Duc de Sully, confidant of Henri IV French statesman, bora at the château of Rosny near Mantes, on the 13th of December 1560, of a noble family of Flemish descent.
		His father, François de Béthune, baron de Rosny, was the son of Jean de Béthune, to whom in 1529 his wife Anne de Melun brought as part of her dowry a seigneurie at Rosny-sur-Seine, which later (1601) was made a marquisate.
		Sully opposed the king's colonial policy as inconsistent with the French genius, and likewise showed little favor to industrial pursuits, although on the urgent solicitation of the king he established a few silk factories.
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	Henry IV of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
		Although he was a man of kindness, compassion, and good humor, and much loved by his people, King Henri IV was assassinated on 14 May, 1610 in Paris, by a fanatic called François Ravaillac, and was buried at Saint Denis Basilica.
		His widow, Marie de Médicis, served as Regent to their 9-year-old son, Louis XIII until 1617.
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	H4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 1572, he married Marguerite de Valois, the daughter of Catherine de Medici in an effort to reconcile all sides in France.
		Sully was a Huguenot who fought in the French Wars of Religion and was trained in military affairs.
		Sully concentrated on building up a strong central secretariat and a provincial infrastructure so as to bring the whole organisation under closer central supervision.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /H4.htm (970 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Residence in France,
		De _____, on her arrival, took her post by the farmer's fire-side, and was out of humour the whole day, inasmuch as our fare was homely, and there was nothing but rustics to see or be seen by.
		M. de C____ referred him to the passport, and suspecting the man could not read, persisted in refusing to give a verbal account of himself, but with much civility pressed the perusal of the passport; adding, that if it was informal, Monsieur might write to the municipality that granted it.
		de ____, besides the usual attendants on a French woman, a femme de chambre and a lap-dog, travels with several cages of canary-birds, some pots of curious exotics, and a favourite cat; all of which must be disposed of so as to produce no interstine commotions during the journey.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sully Maximilien de Béthune Duc de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de (1560-1641), French statesman, born in the château of Rosny-sur-Seine near Mantes-Gassicourt, heir to the...
		In 1599 Henry secured papal annulment of his first marriage, and the year after he married Marie de Médicis, a distant cousin of the mother of the...
		Fouché, Joseph, Duc d'Otrante (1759-1820), French statesman, known as the father of modern political espionage.
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	The Rank/Title of Prince in France
		To the house of Montglat in 1694, the comte de Chiverny in 1718 (EdlF).
		The title of prince de Guéméné was commonly used by the eldest son of the duc de Montbazon.
		At the death of François-Joseph de Lorraine, duc de Guise in 1675, his paternal great-aunt Marie de Lorraine (1615-88), sister of Henri II de Guise, inherited Joinville, which she left to Charles de Stainville, comte de Couvonges, with a remainder to the younger sons of the duke of Lorraine's younger sons and their heir males.
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	Maximilien de Bethune, duke de Sully -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of François de Béthune, Baron de Rosny, he was brought up as a Huguenot and was sent at an early age to the court of Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France).
		In the golden age of Spanish literature the playwright and poet Lope de Vega was one of his country's brightest lights and its truest representative.
		A virtuoso of language, Francisco Gómez de Quevedo was a poet and master satirist of Spain's Golden Age.
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	Great Officers of the Crown
		François de Lorraine, duc de Guise (1520-63) from 1559 to 1563
		François de Lorraine, duc de Guise (1520-63), from 1556 to 1563
		François de Lorraine, duc de Guise (1520-63), from 1551 to 1563
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	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Henry IV (of France) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 1599 Henry secured papal annulment of his first marriage, and the year after he married Marie de Médicis, a distant cousin of the mother of the last Valois kings.
		His leading minister, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, reorganized the finances and promoted the economic recovery of France after decades of civil war.
		The system by which officials in finance and the judiciary purchased their offices from the Crown was formalized in 1604 by a tax on office known as the paulette.
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	Henry IV of France -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Henry IV was the son of (Click link for more info and facts about Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome) Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and (Click link for more info and facts about Jeanne d'Albret) Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of (Click link for more info and facts about Navarre) Navarre.
		The eldest male descendant of the Bourbon-Busset was the French writer Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912 — 2001), member of the (An honorary group of French writers and thinkers supported by the French government) French Academy.
		He and Sully protected forests from further devastation, built a new system of tree-lined highways, and constructed new bridges and canals.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/henry_iv_of_france1.htm (1984 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Paris - Royal Court of France
		Marguerite was made to marry Henri de Bourbon of Navarre, the son of the Protestant Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, a marriage that was designed to reunite family ties and create harmony between the Catholics and Huguenots.
		Gaspard de Coligny, a French Huguenot, established a colony at the mouth of the Rio de Janeiro in 1555.
		Philip de Valois (Philip VI, ruled 1328-1350) was crowned after the death of his childless cousi, Chalres IV, despite rival claims of another cousin, Edward III of England.
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	SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE - Online Information article about SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE
		Michaud and J. Poujoulat, Nouvelle collection des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France (1854), vols.
		Berlin, 1892); C. Pfister, " Les '(Economies royales' de Sully et le grand dessein de Henri IV." in Revue historique (1894), vols.
		Estrees et Sully " in Revue historique (1887), vol.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/SULLY_MAXIMILIEN_DE_BETHUNE.html (1759 words)

	Henri IV 1553 – 1610 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Son of d’Antoine de Bourbon, duc of Vêndome and Jeanne d’Albret, daughter of Henri, King of Navarre.
		A renowned womaniser, he divorced Margueite de Valois and in 1600, married Marie de Medicis, a member of the banking family of Medicis.
		With the aid of his Huguenot chief minister Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, he reconstructed the war-torn country developing agriculture, industry and business.
	www.wine-drive.co.uk /public/royals/royals_file/1589-1610henryiv.html (295 words)

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		In this passage, de Béthune describes a man that he met who excelled in every imaginable intellectual ability.
		Reverse the medal, says Sully: He was a liar, false, treacherous, cruel, and cowardly, a sharper, drunkard and glutton.
		Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully (1559-1641), French statesman.
	www.utm.edu /staff/jfieser/vita/research/virtwide.htm (5978 words)

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		1255, adviser to the King of France: especially de recuperatione terrae sanctae, 1306, proposing a federation to be led by France, with the pope as titular head, ostensibly to regain the holy land, but by means of a European federation (SJH: 1ff., ES:1-8).
		Sully claimed to have discussed it with Queen Elizabeth in 1601 but seems rather to have drafted it after his retirement after 1620.
		1814, (Eve of the congress of Vienna) Claude Henri de Saint-Simon and Augustin Thierry, On the reorganization of European Society, or the necessity and the means of uniting the peoples of Europe while keeping for each its national independence.
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		Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de (1758-1794), French lawyer and political leader, who became one of the most influential figures of...
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	physics - Henry IV of France
		Henry IV was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
		The eldest male descendant of the Bourbon-Busset was the French writer Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912 — 2001), member of the French Academy.
		President Charles de Gaulle was once quoted telling him: "Had it not been for the decision of King Louis XI, you may well be head of state of France today, instead of me."
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Henry_IV_of_France (1684 words)

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		A history of the growth of Dutch commerce, and an essay on the causes of its decline in the eighteenth century, and on the ways and means for improvement.
		Bevattende een overzigt van de oude plaatselijke gesteldheid der stad, van hare bewaking, verlichting en verdere maatregelen, tot veiligheid en gemak der ingezetenen, op de openbare wegen genomen.
		Sully, Maximilien de Bethune, duc de, 1560-1641, French statesman.
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	Henry IV of France - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In France Henry IV was (and still is) informally nicknamed le bon roi Henri ("good king Henry").
		Henry's councillors strongly opposed this idea, but the matter was resolved unexpectedly by Gabrielle d'Estrée's sudden death in April 1599, after she had given birth prematurely to a stillborn son.
		His marriage was anulled in 1599 and he then married in 1600 Marie de Médicis.
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	French History of the Bourbon Dynasty
		Marie de' Medici wasted the wealth amassed by Henri IV.; she never purged herself of the charge of having known of the king's assassination; her /intimate/ was d'Epernon, who did not ward off Ravaillac's blow, and who was proved to have known the murderer personally for a long time.
		Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis was the first child of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis.
		According to the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, Louis XIV's weakening of the nobility, coupled with his oppression of the peasantry, contributed to the political, social and economic instabilities that eventually led to the French Revolution.
	www.bonjourlafrance.net /france-facts/france-history/bourbon-dynasty.htm (7673 words)

	13 Dec History: This Date
		Then Mandela and de Klerk would work to end apartheid and bring about a peaceful transition to nonracial democracy in South Africa, for which they were awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace.
		De nombreuses " fuites " (authentiques ou organisées) alertent la direction du syndicat qui menace de déclencher la grève générale si le général Jaruzelski décidait d’instaurer l’état d’urgence.
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	Sully, Grotius and Penn (1972) Peace projects of the seventeenth century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sully, Grotius and Penn (1972) Peace projects of the seventeenth century
		"Comprising Sully's Grand design of Henry IV from the Memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, with an introduction by David Ogg.
		The law of war and peace, selections from De jure belli ac pacis, by Hugo Grotius, translated, with an introduction, by W. Knight.
	www.getcited.org /pub/102007840 (79 words)

	Briare Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Canal de Briare is one of the oldest canals in France.
		It was ordered by Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, in order to develop the trade of grain, and to reduce the food shortages.
		Being a junction canal (between two different basins), it was not only necessary to build locks, but also to design a particular level, on the watershed.
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