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“The literature on this period is remarkably rich and deep and has benefitted not only from the burst of activity that attended the approach of Henri’s 400th anniversary year (1989) and continued thereafter, but also from the changing perspectives and focal points of historians in recent decades. I’d like to think that my book makes good use of the work of so many of those scholars in the field of early modern Europe and provides the reader with an introduction to a fascinating period of French history and to a key player. Henri IV earned an honored place in the national narrative of his country by, as I write in the preface, ‘winning his crown, pacifying his subjects, and governing not simply well, but memorably…'” Read more...
The best books on Henri IV of France
Vincent Pitts, Historian
“The book is a galloping history for the general public, in which the author displays an eye for striking quotation and a narrative historian’s sense of the dramatic.”
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