Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France

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Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Crown, Church and Ultramontanism......Page 30
1 Henri IV and the Papacy after the League......Page 32
2 Adjusting to Peace: The Observant Franciscans of Paris and the Reign of Henri IV......Page 53
Part II: Contentious Words and Deeds: History and the Construction of Memory......Page 74
3 Exegesis as Public Performance: Controversialist Debate and Politics at the Conference of Fontainebleau (1600)......Page 76
4 Chastel’s Attempted Regicide (27 December 1594) and its Subsequent Transformation into an ‘Affair’......Page 97
Part III: Clemency and Conflict: The Bourbon Style of Government......Page 116
5 Royal Authority and the Pursuit of a Lasting Religious Settlement: Henri IV and the Emergence of the Bourbon Monarchy......Page 118
6 Conflict Resolution under the First Bourbons......Page 143
Part IV: Catholic Activism to the Richelieu Years......Page 166
7 Henri IV, the Dévots and the Making of a French Catholic Reformation......Page 168
8 Vincent de Paul: The Making of a Catholic Dévot......Page 191
Part V: The Politics of Religion in the Provinces......Page 212
9 The Origins of Counter Reform Piety in Nantes: The Catholic League and its Aftermath (1585–1617)......Page 214
10 Obedience to the King and Attachment to Tradition: Senlis under the Early Bourbons (1598–1643)......Page 232
Régime Change: Restoration, Reconstruction and Reformation......Page 257
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