Table of Contents

Preface to third edition

Note on referencing system

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Who’s Who

Glossary

Maps

PART ONE: ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION

1. THE GROWTH OF CALVINISM

2. THE KINGDOM IN CRISIS

3. CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI AND THE COLLOQUY OF POISSY

4. THE FIRST THREE RELIGIOUS WARS

5. THE MASSACRE OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

6. HUGUENOT SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE

7. HENRY III

8. ‘PARIS IS WORTH A MASS’: THE TRIUMPH OF HENRY IV

CONCLUSION

PART TWO: DOCUMENTS

1. The Tumult of Amboise, 1560

2. Michel de L’Hôpital: The Voice of Moderation, 13 December 1560.

3. The Colloquy of Poissy, 9 September-18 October 1561.

4. Monluc in Guyenne, 1562.

5. The situation in 1562: A Venetian view of France

6. Promises to avenge the murder of François, duke of Guise, 1563.

7. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, 1572.

8. The Huguenot State in the South, 1572.

9. Francogallia by François Hotman, 1573.

10. TheRight of Magistrates by Théodore De Bèze, 1574.

11. The Peace of Monsieur, 6 May 1576.

12. The Royal Mignons, July 1576.

13. The Defence of Liberty against Tyrants by Philippe Du Plessis-Mornay, 1579.

14. The Order of the Holy Ghost, January 1579.

15. The ‘Day of the Barricades’, 12 May, 1588.

16. The murder of Henri, Duke of Guise, at Blois, 23 December 1588.

17. The death of Catherine de’ Medici, 5 January 1589.

18. The assassination of Henry III, 1 August 1589.

19. An apologia for the Sixteen, 1593.

20. The Edict of Nantes, 13 April 1598.

21. Henry IV’s speech to the Parlement of Paris, 7 February 1599.

Genealogies

Index

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About the Author

R. J. Knecht is Emeritus Professor of French history, University of Birmingham.