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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry IV |
 | | By the death of the Duke of Anjou, in 1584, Henry of Bourbon became heir-presumptive to the crown of France. |
 | | Wishing France to have a king who was respected and hostile to heresy, he declared that Henry of Bourbon had forfeited his rights to the throne of France, deprived him of the crown of Navarre, and released his subjects from their oath of fidelity (9 September, 1585). |
 | | Henry IV, however, contributed towards it, owing to the influence of Père Coton, by favouring the work of the Jesuits, who, although they had been banished by a decree of the Parlement of Paris, were left undisturbed in the districts under the jurisdiction of the Parlements of Bordeaux and Toulouse. |
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