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Article: Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er aout 1589.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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Nicolas Le Roux. Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er aout 1589.
Les journees qui ont fait la France. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2006. 452 pp. index. append. chron. bibl. [euro]24. ISBN: 2-07-073529-X.
In the last thirty years, our understanding of many controversial topics on the violent and near-chaotic end of the Valois dynasty has gone through a sea change. Historians have broken from old generalizations primarily based on the flaws, ambitions, and corruption of rulers and great personages to redefine sharply the agents and contingencies that shaped the period's transformations in culture, politics, and society. Nicolas Le Roux's ...