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Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.

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Henry IV of France

King of France from 1589 to 1610

Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. He pragmatically balanced the…
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Tours

City in Centre-Val de Loire, France

Tours is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.
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French Wars of Religion

1562–1598 Catholic-Protestant conflicts

The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French…
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February 5

Day of the year

February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 329 days remain until the end of the year.
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