Setting/France17c

17th Century France
This is the setting of the published game. This is the time of Louis XIII, Louis XIV "The Sun King", The Three Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guard, Cardinal Richelieu, and Cyrano de Bergiac (Roxanne). The books were in the time of Louis XIII. See The following is a time-line of the period, many games blur this a bit for game play (see: French History)
 * List of Historical People
 * Court of Louis XIV
 * French Military
 * French History
 * French Government
 * Wikipedia Entry for Ancien Regime
 * 1598 Edict of Nantes (Catholicism as official state religion but allowing Huguenots rights)
 * 1610 Luis XIII ascends (at age 9 after assassination of Henry IV)
 * 1624 Richelieu becomes Chief Minister
 * 1626-1628 Three Musketeers Story
 * 1635 France Enters the Thirty Years' War (1618)
 * 1636 Seige of Corbie
 * 1640 Cyrano de Bergerac story
 * 1642 France Loss at Battle of Honnecourt
 * 1642 Richelieu Dies, Mazarin succeeds him.
 * 1643 Luis XIII dies, Luis XIV ascends (at age 5)
 * 1648 End of the Thirty Years' War
 * 1648-1653 Fronde (Civil War)
 * 1653-1659 Franco-Spanish war
 * 1661 Mazarin Dies, Colbert Succeeds him.
 * 1667-1668 War of Devolution
 * 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War
 * 1683 Colbert Dies
 * 1689-1697 Nine Years War
 * 1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
 * 1789 Storming of the Bastille and End of French Monarchy