I
Collections of Sources:
‘Archives curieuses de l’histoire de France depuis Luis XI jusqu’à Louis XVIII’, ed. L. Cimber and F. Danjou, Paris 1834 etc.
‘Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the reign of Elizabeth’, 1569–71, 1572–74, London 1876.
‘Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reigns of Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, 1547–1580’, London 1856.
‘Collection Complète des Mémoires relatifs à l’histoire de France,’ Paris 1819 etc.
‘A Collection of State Papers, From Letters and Memorials left by William Cecil, Lord Burghley’, ed. S. Haynes and W. Murdin, London 1740–59 (2 vols.).
‘The Compleat Ambassador’, ed. Sir D. Digges, London 1655.
‘The Complete Works of Montaigne’, transl. D. Frame, Hamish Hamilton 1958.
‘Los Fors et Costumas de Béarn’, Pau 1716.
‘Full View of Public Transactions in the Reign of Elizabeth’, ed. P. Forbes, London 1740 (2 vols.).
‘Henri IV raconté par lui-même’, ed. J. Nouaillac, Paris 1913.
‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels from the Year 1592 to 1617’, ed. T. Birch, London 1749.
‘The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon’, ed. J. Spedding, R. L. Ellis and D. D. Heath, London 1857–74 (14 vols.).
‘The Letters of Queen Elizabeth’, ed. G. B. Harrison, Cassell 1968.
‘Lettres d’Antoine de Bourbon et de Jehanne d’Albret’, ed. A. de Ruble, Paris 1877.
‘Lettres inédites de Henry IV’, ed. A. Galitzin, Paris 1860.
‘Lettres intimes de Henri IV’, ed. L. E. Dussieux, Paris 1878.
‘Ordonnances feites per Henric II rey de Navarre, Signour souviran de Béarn sus la direction de Justicy’, Pau 1717.
‘Recueil de diverses pièces servans à l’histoire de Henri III’, The Hague 1666.
‘Recueil des Lettres Missives de Henri IV’, ed. J. Berger de Xivrey, Paris 1843–76 (9 vols.).
‘Relation des Ambassadeurs Vénitiens, sur les affaires de France au XIVe siècle’, ed. M. N. Tommaseo, Paris 1832 (2 vols.).
‘Stil de la Justicy deu Pais de Bearn … publicat en l’an cinq cens sixante quouaie, Regente Johanne Dame Souvirane de Bearn’, Pau 1716.
‘Les Testaments des derniers rois de Navarre’, ed. R. Anthony and H. Courteault, Paris 1940.
II
Contemporary works and works written within 50 years of Henry IV’s death:
J. d’Albret: ‘Mémoires et Poésies de Jeanne d’Albret’, ed. A. de Ruble, Paris 1893.
Anon: ‘Discours merveilleuse de la vie, actions et déportemens de la Reyne Catherine de Medicis’ in ‘Archives curieuses’, series 4, vol. 9, Paris 1836.
Anon: ‘Divorce Satyrique ou les amours de la Reyne Marguerite’ in ‘Recueil de diverses pièces …’.
Anon: ‘The Order of Ceremonies obserued in the annointing and Coronation of the most Christian French King & of Navarre [sic], Henry the IIII of that name, celebrated in our Lady Church, in the Cittie of Chartres vpon Sonday the 27. of February 1594’, (transl.), London 1594.
Anon: ‘The sighes of Fraunce for the death of their late King, Henry the Fourth’, London (John Budge) 1610.
Anon: ‘A True Report of the most execrable Murder committed upon the late French King Henrie the 4’, London (John Budge) 1610.
T. A. d’Aubigné: ‘L’Histoire Universelle’, Maillé 1616–20 (3 vols.).
—— — Mémoires de la Vie de Theodore-Agrippa d’Aubigné’, Amsterdam 1731.
Sir F. Bacon: ‘Essays’, London 1625.
F. de Bassompierre: ‘Mémoires du Mareschal de Bassompierre’, Cologne 1665 (2 vols.).
H. de Beaumont de Péréfixe: ‘Histoire du Roy Henry le Grand’, Amsterdam (Elzevir) 1664 (Eng. transl. by J. Dauncey as ‘the History of Henry IV’, London 1663).
—— ‘Recueil de quelques Belles Actions et paroles memorables du Roy Henry le Grand’, Amsterdam 1664 (Eng. transl. as ‘A Collection of some Brave Actions and Memorable Sayings of King Henry the Great’, London (Abel Roper) 1688).
‘La Bible’ (the first Huguenot Bible, with the Psalms translated by Clement Marot and Beza), Geneva 1567.
P. de Bourdeille de Brantôme: ‘Les Vies des Dames Illustres de France de son temps’, Amsterdam 1665.
—— ‘Les Vies de Hommes Illustres & grands Capitaines estrangers de son temps’, Amsterdam 1665.
—— ‘Les Vies des Hommes Illustres & grands Capitaines François de son temps’, Amsterdam 1666 (4 vols.).
—— ‘Mémoires de Mre. Pierre de Bourdeille de Brantôme, contenans les Anecdotes de la Cour de France sous les Rois Henry II, François II, Henry III & IV touchant les Duels’, Leyden 1722.
—— ‘Les Vies des Dames Galantes’, Paris 1891.
Sir G. Carew: ‘A Relation of the State of France, with the characters of Henry IV, and the principal persons of that Court’ in ‘An Historical View …’.
G. de Chappuys: ‘L’Histoire du Royaume de Navarre’, Paris 1596.
Sir T. Coningsby: ‘Journal of the Siege of Rouen, 1591’, ed. J. G. Nichols, Camden Society, London 1847.
Louise, Princesse de Conti: ‘Histoire des Amours du grand Alcandre’ in ‘Recueil de diverses pièces …’.
T. Coryate: Coryat’s Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneths Travells’, London 1611
Sir R. Dallington: ‘The View of Fraunce’, London 1604.
S. Dupleix: ‘Histoire de Henry le grand IV du nom, Roy de France et de Navarre’, Paris 1635.
—— ‘Histoire de Henry III, Roy de France et de Pologne’, Paris 1636.
P. de L’Estoile: ‘Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de France’, Cologne 1719 (2 vols.—transl. by N. L. Roelker: ‘The Paris of Henry of Navarre’ Cambridge, U.S.A. 1958).
—— ‘Journal de L’Estoile’, ed. L. R. Lefèvre, Paris 1948–60 (3 vols.).
A Favyn: ‘Histoire de Navarre’, Paris 1612.
T. Fuller: ‘The Worthies of England’, London 1662.
J. B. Legrain: ‘Décade contenant La Vie et Gestes de Henry le Grand Roy de France et de Navarre, IIII du Nom’, Paris 1614.
C. Groulard: ‘Mémoires de Messire Claude Groulard’ in ‘Collection Complète …’ series 1, vol. 49, Paris 1826.
M. de la Huguerye: ‘Mémoires inédits de Michel de la Huguerye’, Paris 1877.
M. de Marolles: ‘Les Mémoires de Michel de Marolles, abbé de Villeloin’, Paris 1656–57 (2 vols.).
P. Matthieu: ‘Histoire de France sous les règnes de François I, Henry II, François II, Henry III, Henry IV, Louis XIII, Paris 1631 (2 vols.).
M. Eyquem de Montaigne: ‘The Essays on Morall, Politike, and Millitarie Discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne’, transl. John Florio, London 1603.
B. de Lasseran-Massencome de Montluc: ‘Commentaires de Messire de Monluc’, Lyons 1593 (2 vols.—Eng. transl. by C. Cotton as ‘The Commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc’, London 1674).
F. Moryson: ‘An Itinerary … written by Fynes Moryson, Gent.’, London 1617.
—— ‘Shakespeare’s Europe: unpublished chapters of Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary’, ed. C. Hughes, London 1903.
B. de Salignac de la Mothe Fénélon: ‘Correspondence diplomatique …’ in ‘Recueil des dépêches, rapports, instructions et mémoires des Ambassadeurs de France en Angleterre et en Ecosse pendant le XVIe siècle’, Paris 1838 (7 vols.).
Louis, Duc de Nevers: ‘Les Mémoires de Monsieur le Duc de Nevers’, 1665 (2 vols.).
F. de La Noue: ‘Mémoires du sieur François de La Noue’ (in vol. 34 in series 1 of ‘Collection Complète …’, Paris 1823).
P. Olhagaray: ‘Histoire de Foix, Béarn et Navarre’, Paris 1609.
T. Owen, S. J.: ‘A letter of a Catholike man beyond the seas, written to his friend in England; including another of Peter Coton, Priest of the Society of Iesus, to the Queene Regent of France. Translated out of French into English. Tovching the imputation of the death of Henry the IIII, late K. of France, to Priests, Iesuites, or Catholicke doctrine’, St Omer 1610.
P. V. Palma Cayet: ‘Chronologie Novenaire’, Paris 1608 (4 vols.).
Sir W. Raleigh: ‘History of the World’, London 1614.
J. F. Ravaillac: ‘Procez, Exament, confessions et negations du meschant & execrable parricide François Rauaillac sur la mort de Henry Le Grand, & ce qui l’a faict entreprendre le malheureux acte’, Paris 1611.
—— ‘The Trial of F. Ravaillac’ in vol. V. of Sully’s Memoirs (Eng. transl., edn. of 1819).
—— ‘The terrible and deserued death of Francis Rauilliack, shewing the manner of his strange torments at his Execution, vpon Fryday the 25. of May last past for the murther of the late French King, Henry the fourth’ (transl.), London, William Barley & John Baylie 1610.
G. du Sable: ‘La Muse chasseresse’, Paris 1884.
M. de Béthune, Duc de Sully: ‘Mémoires des sages et royales oeconomies d’estat, domestiques, politiques, et militaires de Henry le Grand …’, Amsterdam and Paris 1638–63 (4 vols.).
—— rearranged by the abbé de L’Ecluse, London 1747 (11 vols.—Eng. transl. by Charlotte Lennox as ‘Memoirs of Maximilian de Béthune, Duc of Sully’, Edinburgh 1819–5 vols.).
G. Tallemant des Réaux: ‘Les Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux’, Paris 1854–60 (8 vols.).
G. de Saulx de Tavannes: ‘Mémoires …’, Paris 1829.
J. A. de Thou: ‘Historiarum sui temporis,’ London 1733 (7 vols.)
—— ‘Histoire Universelle’, La Haye 1740 (11 vols.).
—— ‘Mémoires de Jacques-Auguste de Thou’ in ‘Collection Complète …’, series 1, vol. 37, Paris 1823.
Sir H. Unton: ‘Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton’, ed. T. Stevenson, Roxburghe Club, London 1847.
Marguerite de Valois: ‘Les Mémoires de la roine Marguerite’, Paris 1628.
R. Verstegan (R. Rowlands): ‘Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum nostri temporis’, Antwerp 1604 (transl. ‘Théatre des Cruautez des Hereticques de nostre temps’, Antwerp 1607).
F. Racine de Villegomblain: ‘Mémoires des troubles arrivés en France sous les règnes des rois Charles IX, Henri III et Henri IV’, Paris 1667–68 (2 vols.).
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Later works
Lord Acton: ‘History of Freedom and other essays’, London 1907.
G. Allard: ‘Les Vies de François de Beaumont, Baron des Adrets, de Charles Dupuy, Seigneur du Montbrun, et de Soffrey de Calignon, Chancellier de Navarre’, Grenoble 1676.
Henri, Duc d’Aumâle: ‘Historoire des Princes de Condé pendant les XVIe & XVIIe, siècles,’ Paris 1863–96 (8 vols.).
M. Andrieux: ‘Henri IV dans ses années pacifiques’, Paris 1954.
H. Barthety: ‘Le Berceau de Henri IV’, Pau 1893.
L. Batiffol: ‘La vie intime d’une reine de France (Marie de Médicis) au XVIIe siècle,’ Paris 1906.
J. B. Black: ‘Elizabeth and Henry IV’, O.U.P. 1914.
J. B. Black: ‘The Reign of Elizabeth, 1558–1603’, O.U.P. 1959 (2nd ed.).
M. Bloch: ‘Les Rois Thaumaturges’, Strasburg 1924.
F. P. Braudel: ‘Prices in Europe from 1450–1750’ in ‘The Cambridge Economic History of Europe’, vol. IV, C.U.P. 1967.
D. Buisseret: ‘Sully and the growth of centralised government in France, 1598–1610’, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1968.
E. Burke: ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’, London 1790.
R. de Bury: ‘Histoire de la vie de Henri IV, roi de France et de Navarre’, Paris 1765 (4 vols.).
A. J. Butler: ‘The Wars of Religion in France’ in the ‘Cambridge Modern History’, vol. III, C.U.P. 1902.
P. Erlanger: ‘The Age of Courts and Kings’, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967.
P. Erlanger: ‘Henri III’, Paris 1935.
P. Erlanger: ‘La Jeunesse d’Henri III’, Paris 1933.
P. Erlanger: ‘Le Massacre de la Saint-Barthelemy’, Paris 1960 (transl. by P. O’Brian as ‘The Massacre of St Bartholomew’, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1962).
P. Erlanger: ‘L’Étrange mort de Henri IV’, Paris 1967.
G. Fagniez: ‘L’Economie sociale de la France sous Henri IV’, Paris 1897.
J. Heritier: ‘Catherine de Médicis’, Paris 1959 (transl. by C. Haldane as ‘Catherine de Medici’, George Allen & Unwin 1963).
Q. Hurst: ‘Henry of Navarre’, London 1937.
J. Hurstfield: ‘Social Structure, Office-holding and Politics, chiefly in Western Europe’ in ‘The New Cambridge Modern History’, vol. III, C.U.P. 1968.
Charlotte, Lady Jackson: ‘The Last of the Valois’, London 1888 (2 vols.).
G. P. R. James: ‘The Life of Henry the Fourth, King of France and Navarre’, London 1847 (3 vols.).
E. Jung: ‘Henri IV Ecrivain’, Paris 1855.
H. G. Koenigsberger: ‘Western Europe and the Rise of Spain’ in ‘The New Cambridge Modern History’, vol. III, C.U.P. 1968.
Sir S. Leathes: ‘Henry IV of France’ in ‘The Cambridge Modern History’, vol. III, C.U.P. 1902.
J. Leclerc: ‘Toleration and the Reformation’, transl. by J. Westow, Longmans, Green & Co., 1960 (2 vols.).
Le Petit Homme Rouge: ‘The Favourites of Henry of Navarre’, London 1910.
J. H. Mariéjol: ‘La Réforme et la Ligue. L’Edit de Nantes. 1559–98’ in ‘Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu’à la Révolution’, ed. E. Lavisse, vol. VI pt. 1, Paris 1904.
—— ‘Henri IV et Louis XIII. 1598–1643’ in ibid. pt. 2, Paris 1905.
G. B. Masefield: ‘Crops and Livestock’ in ‘The Cambridge Economic History of Europe’, vol. IV, C.U.P. 1967.
J. Michelet: ‘Henri Quatre’, Paris 1881.
Sir J. Neale: ‘The Age of Catherine de Medici’, Jonathan Cape 1957 (new ed.).
Sir J. Neale: ‘Queen Elizabeth I’, Jonathan Cape 1952 (new ed.).
D. Ogg: ‘Europe in the Seventeenth Century’, London 1952 (6th ed.).
Sir C. Oman: ‘A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century’, Methuen 1937.
H. Pearson: ‘Henry of Navarre’, Heinemann 1963.
A. Poirson: ‘Histoire du Règne de Henri IV’, Paris 1862–67 (4 vols.).
L. Prault: ‘L’Esprit de Henri IV ou Anecdotes de ce Prince’, Paris 1775 (transl. ‘Interesting Anecdotes of Henry IV of France’, Dublin 1792).
C. Read: ‘Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth’, Oxford 1925 (3 vols.).
M. Reinhard: ‘La Légende de Henry IV’, Paris 1936.
R. Ritter: ‘Henri IV lui-même; l’Homme’, Paris 1944.
—— ‘Cette Grande Corisande’, Paris 1936.
—— ‘Charmante Gabrielle’, Paris 1937.
S. Rocheblave: ‘Agrippa d’Aubigné’, Paris 1910.
C. A. Sainte-Beuve: ‘Galerie de portraits historiques—souverains—hommes d’état—militaires—tirée des causeries de lundi et des portraits Litteraires’, Paris 1883.
H. D. Sedgwick: ‘Henry of Navarre’, Indianapolis 1930.
—— ‘The House of Guise’, Indianapolis 1938.
G. Slocombe: ‘Henry of Navarre’, London 1931.
F. C. Spooner: ‘The Economy of Europe 1559–1610’ in ‘The New Cambridge Modern History’, vol. III, C.U.P. 1968.
P. de Vaissière: ‘Henri IV’, Paris 1928.
Voltaire: ‘Essay sur l’Histoire générale et sur les moeurs et l’esprit des nations, depuis Charlemagne jusqu’à nos jours’, Geneva 1756 (7 vols.).
M. Wilkinson: ‘A History of the League or Sainte Union, 1576–1595’, Glasgow 1929.
C. H. Wilson: ‘Trade, Society and the State’ in ‘The Cambridge Economic History of Europe’, vol. IV, C.U.P. 1967.
J. M. Yanguas y Miranda: ‘Historia compendiada del reino de Navarra’, San Sebastian 1832.
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Plays, Verse and Novels:
Anon: ‘Poesies en diuerses langues sur la naissance de Henry de Bourbon Prince tres hevrevs’, Toulouse 1554.
T. A. d’Aubigné: ‘Les Tragiques’, 1616.
G. Chapman: ‘The conspiracie and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron, Marshall of France. Acted lately in two playes’, London 1608.
C. Collé: ‘La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV’, Paris 1766.
A. Dumas: ‘La Reine Margot’, Paris 1962 (1st ed. 1845).
—— ‘La Dame de Monsoreau’, Paris 1962 (1st ed. 1846).
—— ‘Les Quarante-cinq’, Paris 1962 (1st ed. 1847–48).
Lord Macaulay: ‘Ivry’.
H. Mann: ‘Die Jugend des Koenigs Henri Quatre’, Amsterdam 1935. (transl. E. Sutton as ‘King Wren: the Youth of Henri IV’, Secker & Warburg 1937).
P. Merimée: ‘Chronique du règne de Charles IX’, Paris 1949 (ed. of 1853).
F. Rabelais: ‘The Whole Works of F. Rabelais M.D…. or the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel’ (transl. by Sir T. Urquhart and P. Motteux), London 1708 (2 vols.).
Voltaire: ‘La Henriade’, London 1728.
F. Walder: ‘Saint-Germain ou la Négotiation’, Paris 1958 (transl. by D. Folliot as ‘The Negotiators’, Heinemann 1960).