The Guyenne to which Henri
returned would forge his destiny. He had known this territory since he was
a child; it lay at the heart of the "promised land" of French Protestantism and
was also the land of his party. For Henri, Guyenne was, successively, a refuge
after his escape from the French court, a jurisdiction after his appointment as
governor, and finally a land of action and apprenticeship. In the ensuing decades, it
would shape the personality and the political ideas of the future king of France.
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