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How did Hugo Grotius’s visit to France influence Pontifex Romanus?

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Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing. — Hugo Grotius Portrait of Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius), oil on panel by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, 1631; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

In 1598, Hugo Grotius accompanied the Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt on a visit to France, where he met King Henry IV. This experience directly influenced his work Pontifex Romanus (1598), which consists of six monologues reflecting on the political situation of that time.1