Article: France in the Sixteenth Century.

Frederic Baumgartner is known to readers of this journal as a historian of religious conflict who moved first into the field of church administration during the Counter-Reformation then into a biography of Henry II. This is a compelling synthesis of Baumgartner's view of the evolution of French society and culture between the meetings of the Etats generaux, called in 1484 to settle the question of a regent for Charles VIII (only thirteen at the death of Louis XI), and the session called in 1614 to take up a similar question for Louis XIII.

Baumgartner divides his volume into three parts: the period between 1484 and the Peace of the Ladies at Cambrai (1530) which ...

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