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Huguenot and Catholic nobles were joined together in celebration of a royal wedding. This resulted in the massacre of 3,000 Huguenots and the slaughtered contutined over the next few days. This Massacre symbolized the com,plete breakdown of order in France.
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Richelieu he was determined to distroy the power of the nobles and the Huguenots. He defeated the private armies of the nobles and at the same time he smashed the walled cities of the Huguenots.
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Complete dissorder swepping France along with the nobles, merchants, peasants and the urban poor rebelling for their own reasons. When his successor, Mazarin, died, he took absolute control.
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In 1648, the exhausted combatants accepted a series of treaties to end the war.
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The building renovotion expansion began in 1661
