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Louis XIII of France
Louis XIII, son of Henry IV, was king of France from 1610. In 1620 he united Béarn and Lower Navarre with the French crown and restored Catholicism there. With Cardinal Richelieu as chief minister from 1624 he took the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle in 1628 and entered the Thirty Years' War against Spain in 1635, capturing Arras in 1640. In 1642 the prince of Sedan ceded his principality to him.
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