ABSTRACT
After the massacre of St Bartholomew’s Day in 1572, many writers who identified with the Reformers justified armed resistance. Agrippa d’Aubigné began to write in this period, and continued throughout his long life to present the events of his time in terms of his faith. However, d’Aubigné saw man’s relationship with God as the focal point of life. In various genres, d’Aubigné wrote to acknowledge his acquiescence before the will of God, and his rejection of human self-interest. D’Aubigné did not write theology, but endeavoured to express the action of the will of God in terms of human experience. The events he witnessed in the course of his life, which lasted until the first quarter of the seventeenth century, showed him clearly the disastrous consequences of men following their own interests and ignoring the will of God. The relation between war and sin is predominant in the themes he develops.
