Kings of France quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Which royal decree granted religious freedom to French Protestants in 1598?

   Answer: Edict of Nantes

   Why: The landmark edict brought peace after decades of religious warfare before Louis XIV revoked it nearly a century later.

2. 2 Medium

   What royal order let French kings jail people without trial?

   Answer: Lettre de cachet

   Why: French kings used these sealed warrants to bypass courts entirely, famously jailing the writer Voltaire.

3. 3 Hard

   At which Hundred Years' War battle was King John II of France captured?

   Answer: Battle of Poitiers

   Why: When his hostage son escaped England, John II voluntarily returned to English captivity out of medieval chivalric honor.

4. 4 Easy

   How long did King Louis XIX reign in 1830 before abdicating the throne?

   Answer: 20 minutes

   Why: Tradition says his wife Marie Thérèse spent those twenty minutes begging him not to sign, while Charles X sat weeping.

5. 5 Medium

   Why did Henry IV convert from Protestantism to Catholicism upon claiming the throne?

   Answer: To unite France and enter Paris

   Why: "Paris is well worth a Mass" is folklore: no source from his lifetime has him say it, and it first surfaces in a 1622 satire.

6. 6 Easy

   Which French king ordered the mass arrest and downfall of the Templars in 1307?

   Answer: Philip IV

   Why: Philip owed enormous financial debts to the wealthy military order, which were effectively wiped clean when the Templars were destroyed.