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I remember reading somewhere that Henri IV of France had a plan to declare war against the HRE, but was killed before he could do it.

Is there any reality in this? Would Henri IV have attacked the HRE had he lived longer, and what would this in turn have on the Dutch Revolution (France eying the Spanish Netherlands and all) and other unfolding events in the HRE (*Bohemian crisis, War of Juelich and Cleves, etc...).

France was on good terms with the Ottomans, having a mutual enemy in the Habsburgs. Might this war see ottoman intervention on the French side?
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