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The coronation of Henri IV in a late 16th-century engraving (Bibliothèque nationale de France).Image: Desmaretz · Public domainpolitics · Europe
Henri IV is crowned at Chartres
Henri IV of France, a Protestant who had converted to Catholicism the year before to end the wars of religion, was crowned in Chartres Cathedral on 27 February 1594. He is the only French king crowned somewhere other than Reims, which was then held by the Catholic League. He entered Paris the following month.
Source: Cathédrale de Chartres: Chartres Cathedral, witness to France’s pivotal moments ↗
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