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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

General Editor’s Introduction

A Note on Coinage and Measures

Map of France (1494)

Map of France (1585–98)

PREFACE

1 France in 1500

2 The minority of Charles VIII and the Breton marriage (1483–94)

3 Charles VIII and the Italian Wars (1494–8)

4 Louis XII, ‘Father of the people’ (1498–1515)

5 The church in crisis

6 Francis I: The first decade (1515–25)

7 The New Learning and heresy (1483–1525)

8 Defeat, captivity and restoration (1525–7)

9 War and peace (1527–38)

10 The court and patronage of Francis I

11 Francis I: The last decade (1537–47)

12 The absolutism of Francis I

13 Henry II, the victor of Metz (1547–52)

14 The arts and literature under Henry II

15 Henry II: The tragic peace (1553–9)

16 France overseas

17 The mid-century crisis

18 The failure of conciliation (1559–62)

19 The First Civil War (1562–3)

20 The fragile peace (1563–6)

21 The Second and Third Civil Wars (1566–70)

22 The St Bartholomew’s day massacres (1572)

23 Literary responses

24 Fraternal discord (1573–83)

25 Henry III and his court

26 The Catholic League (1584–92)

27 The triumph of Henry IV (1593–1610)

CONCLUSION

Bibliography and Rtiferences

Glossary

Genealogies

Index

About the Author

The Fontana History Series

About the Publisher