Gilbert Schrenck

In this third volume of Pierre de l’Estoile’s journal, the author experiences France’s slow emergence out of war, and a quickening of the country’s political renewal under Henry IV. While the king continues to negotiate for peace with individual cities and forces, famine, epidemics, and strife rack the capital. A glimmer of light shines, however, as negotiations lead to the Edict of Nantes and a peaceful coexistence for French Protestants and Catholics.

This text presents the fourth volume of the Memoirs-Journals from the reign of Henry IV which were kept by Pierre de l’Estoile. Beginning in 1599, this volume recounts loves, marriages, births, conspiracies, sudden deaths, strange events, wonders, and more.

This collection of caricatures, illustrations, pamphlets, and other images from the siege of Paris and violence that preceded the coronation of Henry IV, presents the reader with a kind of « theater of crualty », wherein bloody images bear witness to the barbarism of the Ligue. Critical edition of the original 16th-century collection, with scholarly introduction and notes.