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"Violent and extravagant". This is what historiography has retained from Charles IX (1550-1574). Became king when he was only a child, he disappeared before his quarter century. From his fourteen years of reign, one remembers his passion for hunting, his angry temperament and ... the blood of St. Bartholomew. If history has often made him a puppet in the hands of his mother Catherine de Medici, the history of art has little attached to his reign. And yet, between 1560 and 1574, visual arts, literature and music flourished in France. "Of a quick and lively spirit, between soft and anger" (Ronsard) the young king, informed music lover, was writer and poet at his hours. The superb portraits of Clouet keep the memory of his face and allow to follow the metamorphoses of his features over his short life. At the same time, a whole symbolic arsenal is deployed by the courtiers of the court to shape the image of the kingship it is supposed to embody. His opponents will do the same to destroy or distract her. The studies assembled in this volume, rather than sketching out the contours of a hypothetical Charles IX patron, or drawing up an inventory of the arts at the time of the young sovereign, study the many facets, sometimes contradictory, of the image of the king, real, symbolic or imaginary. His opponents will do the same to destroy or distract her. The studies assembled in this volume, rather than sketching out the contours of a hypothetical Charles IX patron, or drawing up an inventory of the arts at the time of the young sovereign, study the many facets, sometimes contradictory, of the image of the king, real, symbolic or imaginary. His opponents will do the same to destroy or distract her. The studies assembled in this volume, rather than sketching out the contours of a hypothetical Charles IX patron, or drawing up an inventory of the arts at the time of the young sovereign, study the many facets, sometimes contradictory, of the image of the king, real, symbolic or imaginary.

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Historians have long ignored the military aspect of the wars of religion which raged in France during the late sixteenth century, dismissing the conflicts as aimless or hopelessly confused. In contrast, this meticulously researched analysis of the royal army and its operations during the early civil wars brings warfare back to the centre of the picture. James B. Wood explains the reasons for the initial failure of the monarchy to defeat the Huguenots, and examines how that failure prolonged the conflict. He argues that the nature and outcome of the civil wars can only be explained by the fusion of religious rebellion and incomplete military revolution. This study makes an important contribution to the history of military forces, warfare and society, and will be of great interest to those engaged in the debate over the 'Military Revolution' in early modern Europe.

Charles --- Henry --- Henri --- Henryk Walezy, --- Henricus, Valesius, --- Karel --- Military leadership. --- France. --- France combattante. --- History --- France --- Valesius, Henricus, --- Henryk --- Henry de Valois, --- Henry de Valoys, --- Arts and Humanities --- Guerres de religion (France ; 1562-1598) --- Boundary value problems --- Differential equations, Parabolic --- Military art and science --- Semigroups --- Charles - IX - King of France - 1550-1574 --- Henry - III - King of France - 1551-1589