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| I. | Europe at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, | [1] |
| II. | France under Henry iv., | [14] |
| III. | The Counter-Reformation and religious troubles in Germany, | [39] |
| IV. | The beginning of the Thirty Years’ War, | [53] |
| V. | The Thirty Years’ War from the peace of Lübeck
to the peace of Prague, | [78] |
| VI. | The aggrandisement of France, | [106] |
| VII. | France under Richelieu and Mazarin, | [133] |
| VIII. | Northern Europe to the treaty of Oliva, | [166] |
| IX. | Louis xiv. and Colbert, | [185] |
| X. | Louis xiv. and the United Provinces, | [207] |
| XI. | Louis xiv. and William iii., | [235] |
| XII. | South-eastern Europe, | [266] |
| XIII. | The Northern Nations from the treaty of Oliva
to the peace of Utrecht, | [290] |
| XIV. | The Partition Treaties and the Grand Alliance, | [312] |
| XV. | The War of the Spanish Succession and the death of Louis xiv., | [342] |