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The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle during the Wars of Religion

By Mack P. Holt

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521892783, 9780511562648, 9780521322324, 9780521892780
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1878077 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Pages
260\248
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

From the beginning of the French Wars of Religion a small minority of toleration-minded Protestants and Catholics sought out a via media to end the civil wars which were destroying France. Later called politiques by their more zealous Catholic opponents, this group turned to Fran?ois de Valois, duke of Alen?on and Anjou in the 1570s, to champion their cause. Youngest son of Henry II and Catherine de Medici and heir to the throne himself after 1574, Anjou was also sought out by William of Orange and a similar group of politiques in the rebel provinces of the Netherlands, where the Dutch Revolt had virtually become a civil war. Anjou never became the saviour that either group had looked for, however. This book analyses why he nevertheless became the focus of such attention, and tries to explain why he never joined the politique struggle of the later sixteenth century.

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