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tbat concerning theValteline, and that concerningthe fnccefiion of Mantua ; without engaging fodeep as to divert him from another great objedfcof his policy, fubduing Rochelle and difarmingthe Huguenots . You will obferve how he turnedhimfelf, after this was done, to flop the progrefs ofFeK oinanii in Germany . WhilftSpain fomented dif-contents at the court and diforders in the kingdomof brance, by all poffible means, even by takingengagements with the duke of Rohan , and forfupporting the proteftants; Richelieu abetted thefame intereft in Germany againft Ferdinand ; andin the Low Countries againft Spain . The emperorwas become almoft the matter in Germany . Chris-tian the fourth , king of Denmark , had been ac. the head of a league, wherein the United Provin­ ces , Sweden , and Lower Saxony entered , to op-pofe his progrefs : but Christian had been defeatedby Tilly and Valstein, and obliged to con-clude a treaty at Lubec, where F'erdinand gavehim the law. It was then that Gustavus Adol­ phus , with whom Richelieu made an alliance,entered into this war, and foon turned the fortuneof it. The French minifter had not yet engagedhis mailer openly in the war; but when the Dutch grew impatient, and threatened to renew their trucewith Spain , unlefs France declared; when the kingof Sweden was killed, and the battle of Nord-lingen loft; when Saxony had turned again to thefide of the emperor, and Brandenburgh and fomany others had followed this example , thatHeffe almoft alone perlifted in the Swedifh alliance ;