Henry IV of France

Notable quotes

“Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot.”
— If God grant me life, I will see that every laboring man in my kingdom shall have his chicken to put in the pot.
“I rule with my arse in the saddle and my gun in my fist.”
— Martial motto, as quoted in Alistair Horne, Friend or Foe: An Anglo-Saxon History of France (2004), p. 82

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