Jean-Claude Laborie

Fifth and sixth books in La Popellinière’s monumental History of France for the years 1557-1560. In addition to matters in France, the text addresses French involvements in Scotland and Brazil. La Popellinière drew principally from Protestant written sources, editing them of judgement and adding other documents, in order to provide his own non-partisan history. Critical edition with copious notes and indices.

This text presents the third volume of The History of France by La Popelinière, published in 1581, focuses on the two crucial years of 1561 and 1562 that saw the outbreak of the Wars of Religion. The critical notes contained within this text are mainly concerned, as in previous volumes, with finding the sources used and to shed light on the work of recomposition and neutralization of the historian in these sources.