Politics and religion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century france 21

THIS BOOK is concerned with the political and religious hopes centred on Henri IV of France in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using a mass of evidence, from both unpublished sources and from little-known published writings, Corrado Vivanti builds up an image of Henri IV as seen by contemporaries which is very different from that of the able but gay monarch with which historians usually present us.