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La Rochelle
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the Huguenot seaport. Richelieu directed the attack at this town
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Tax Farming
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selling the right to collect taxes to private individuals called tax farmers
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Edict of Nantes
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a special order to guarantee freedom of worship and political rights. It defused the religious conflict and ended civil wars.
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intendants
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local administrators. Usually middle-class people who had no interest in advancing the power of the nobles
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absolutism
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a system of government in which the ruler determines policy without consulting either the people or their representatives, but rather by divine right
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Cardinal Richelieu
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chosen by Louis XIII as cheif minister - created system by which france was governed until FR. planned to reduce power of Spanish and Austrian Haspburgs
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