Table of Contents
Preface to the third edition x
Publisher's acknowledgements xi
Note on referencing system xii
Chronology xiii
Who's who xxii
Glossary xxx
Maps xxxiv
Part 1 Analysis 1
Introduction 3
1 The Growth of Calvinism 7
John Calvin (1509-64) 7
The creation of a militant church 9
The Conspiracy of Amboise (1560) 12
The impact of Calvinism 12
2 The Kingdom in Crisis 14
Calvinism and the nobility 14
The growth of faction 18
The crisis of 1559-60 21
3 Catherine De' Medici and the Colloquy of Poissy 29
The regency of Catherine de' Medici (1560-64) 29
The Colloquy of Poissy (1561) 30
The Edict of January (1562) 33
4 The First Three Religious Wars 34
The first war (1562-63) 35
The second war (1567-68) 39
The third war (1568-70) 40
5 The Massacre of St Bartholomew 43
Coligny and the Dutch revolt 43
The Valois-Navarre marriage 46
An unsatisfactory peace 46
The massacre in Paris 49
The provincial massacres 51
6 Huguenot Survival and Resistance 53
The United Provinces of the Midi 54
The Huguenot doctrine of resistance 56
7 Henry III 62
Henry III: A controversial monarch 63
The Catholic League 65
The Duke of Anjou 66
The disputed succession 67
The 'Day of the Barricades' 70
8 'paris Is Worth A Mass': The Triumph Of Henry IV 74
The political thought of the League 75
The accession of Henry IV 78
The end of the League 80
The Edict of Nantes 81
9 Conclusion 85
The political effects of the wars 86
The social and economic effects of the wars 91
Recovery? 96
Part 2 Documents 99
1 The Tumult of Amboise, 1560 100
2 Michel de l'Hopital: the voice of moderation, 13 December 1560 101
3 The Colloquy of Poissy, 9 September-18 October 1561 103
4 Monluc in Guyenne,1562 104
5 The situation in 1562: A Venetian view of France 105
6 Promises to avenge the murder of Francois, duke of Guise, 1563 107
7 The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, 1572 108
8 The Huguenot state in the south, 1572 109
9 Francogallia by Francois Hotman, 1573 110
10 The Right of Magistrates by Théodore de Bèze, 1574 111
11 The Peace of Monsieur, 6 May 1576 113
12 The Royal Mignons, July 1576 115
13 The Defence of Liberty against Tyrants by Philippe Du Plessis-Mornay, 1579 116
14 The Order of the Holy Ghost, January 1579 117
15 The 'Day of the Barricades', 12 May 1588 118
16 The murder of Henri, Duke of Guise, at Blois, 23 December 1588 120
17 The death of Catherine de' Medici, 5 January 1589 123
18 The assassination of Henry III, 1 August 1589 124
19 An apologia for the Sixteen, 1593 125
20 The Edict of Nantes, 30 April 1598 127
21 Henry IVs speech to the Parlement of Paris, 7 February 1599 131
Genealogies 132
1 The later Valois 132
2 The house of Guise-Lorraine 133
3 The house of Montmorency 134
4 The house of Bourbon-Vendôme 135
Further Reading 136
References 143
Index 155
