Many members of the Parlement of Paris were Gallicans.
In 1610 Henry IV was assassinated by a Catholic fanatic, François Ravaillac.
There were suspicions that Ravaillac was influenced by Jesuits; the Parlement burned Juan de Mariana’s De Rege et regis institutione (1599), and took further action against ultramontane ideas in the following years.
Sully improved internal communications, and planned a network of canals, and improving roads.
Sully encouraged agricultural improvement and the draining of marshes.
Henry supposedly said that he wanted every French family to have a “chicken in the pot” (poule au pot).
Henry encouraged Sully to set up silk factories and plant mulberry trees.
Henry IV: rebellions and foreign affairs
A conspiracy fomented by France’s neighbor Savoy was suppressed in 1602; the chief conspirators were the Huguenot Henry de la Tour d’Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, and the Catholic Charles de Gontaut, Duke of Biron; Bouillon fled and was later pardoned; Biron was beheaded.