All of the following are illustrations of the so-called principle of raison d'etat, that is doing things that are justified as being good for
the state while contradicting certain principles, EXCEPT for
A the rather ironic entry of France into the Thirty Years War on the side of the Protestant Germans.
B
Henry IV, converting to Catholicism, and then issuing the Edict of Nantes.
destroying the Huguenots political rights while continuing to grant them religious freedom of worship.
establishing the policy of mercantilism.
E granting the Huguenots the right to govern and protect the towns and areas in which they were the majority.