France & Holland to French Revolution

The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Valois-Orléans Branch (1498-1515)
English King's sister Mary Tudor married to King Louis XII, who ruled from 1498-1515
Diane (1956)
Valois-AngoulĂŞme Branch (1515-1589)
Mistress of King Henri II, first emperor of the French Renaissance (rule from 1547 to 1559)
Queen Margot (1994)
Valois-AngoulĂŞme Branch (1515-1589)
Sister of Frances's Charles IX (ruled 1560-1574), brother of Francis II, weds in 16th c; marries the future King Henri IV
Valois-AngoulĂŞme Branch (1515-1589)
Charles IX sends Catholic Baron to Protestant representatives (includes St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572)
House of Bourbon (1589-1792)
Story of Henri IV of France (reign 1589-1610) who enacted the Edict of Nantes for religious freedom
Henri 4 (2010)
House of Bourbon (1589-1792)
King Henry IV of France (reigned 1589-1610) from his rise as the Huguenot Henry of Navarre to a very popular King of France
Ce jour là, tout a changé (2009)
House of Bourbon (1589-1792)
Last day of king Henri IV of France before his murder by the fanatical catholic Ravaillac
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
Cardinal Richelieu oppresses French Protestants, known as Huguenots (under King Louis XIII, 1610-1643)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
Under the Red Robe (1937)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
Cardinal Richelieu worried about opposition from the Huguenots in the south
The Three Musketeers (1935)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
The Musketeers fight against the forces of Cardinal Richelieu.
The Three Musketeers (1939)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
King Louis XIII of France, 1610-1643
The Three Musketeers (1993)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
Musketeers have to foil a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war
Carnival in Flanders (1935)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
A French comedy set during the 1616 Spanish invasion of Flanders
Alatriste (2006)
Louis XIII (1610-1643)
Heroic Spanish soldier fighting in Flanders in 17th century has to look after a dying friend's son in Madrid
Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
Witch Hunting
1630s; womanizing priest Grandier executed for sorcery & the next priest tries to heal the nuns
Witch Hunting
German movie; witchcraft
The Headsman (2005)
Witch Hunting
16th century Tyrol, Austria; of two childhood friends one becomes a friar and the other an executioner, but both are involved in witch hunting
Sorceress (1987)
Witch Hunting
Supposed witchcraft in 13th century France
The Devils (1971)
Witch Hunting
Witchcraft in 17th c. France
Day of Wrath (1943)
Witch Hunting
Accusations of witchcraft in a 17th c. Danish village
Witchhammer (1970)
Witch Hunting
Witch hunting in Czechoslovakia