House of Bourbon

Louis ruled personally from 1661 after Mazarin death, Létat cest moi attributed. Versailles, the hunting lodge turned palace, dome...

Well meaning but indecisive, Louis convened the Estates General 1789, first since 1614, over bankruptcy. The Revolution swept past...

Henry of Navarre, a Protestant leader, inherited the throne as the first Bourbon king amid civil war. He converted to Catholicism ...