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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 66130, member: 708&quot;]Well i&#039;ve just started reading a book on early modern France, i&#039;ve had the book a while but i&#039;ve only just got around to reading it. It covers the background to Henri IV&#039;s accession and runs through the problems France faced right through to the death of Louis XIV.</p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say from what i&#039;ve read so far France in the early 1600s was in the classic saying; rock, hard place. Which was then followed by the Thirty Years War, the rise of Louis XIV who was ultimately the one responsible for steering France towards its destruction. Of course Louis XV did not help. All fascinating stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you ever get the feeling that people (in particular politicians) really are very naive and that history often seems to repeat itself, different people, different names, different location but generally the same kind of things happen?</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t help but feel if more people knew their history perhaps mistakes of the past could be avoided to some degree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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