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Which French king called Hugo Grotius the miracle of Holland?

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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.

The French king who called Hugo Grotius the "miracle of Holland" was Henry IV. He bestowed this title upon Grotius in 1598, when the young scholar accompanied the Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt on a diplomatic mission to France.1