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Selected Bibliography

    Aubigné, Theodore-Agrippa de.
His Life to His Children
. Translated by John Nothnagle. Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
    Baillon, Charles, Comte de.
Histoire de Louise de Lorraine, Reine de France, 1553–1601.
Paris: Chez Léon Techener, 1884.
    Beeching, Jack.
The Galleys at Lepanto.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982.
    Bourbon, Antoine de, and Jeanne d’Albret.
Lettres D’Antoine de Bourbon et De Jehanne D’Albret.
Paris: Librairie Renouard, 1877. Full text at: http://archive.org/stream/lettresdantoined00antouoft#page/n5/mode/2up.
    Bourdeïlle, Pierre de, and C. A. Saint-Beuve.
Illustrious Dames of the Court of the Valois Kings.
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. New York: Lamb Publishing Co., 1912.
    Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeïlle, seigneur de.
Oeuvres Complète, publiées D’après les Manuscrits avec variantes et fragments inédits pour la Société de l’histoire de France par Ludovic Lalanne.
Vol. 8,
Des Dames.
Paris: Chez Mme. Ve. Jules Renouard, 1875.
    Brézol, Georges.
Henri III et Ses Mignons.
Paris: Les Éditions des Bibliophiles, n.d. [191–?].
    Brion, Marcel.
The Medici: A Great Florentine Family.
Translated by Giles and Heather Cremonesi. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1969.
    Cabanès, Augustin.
Le Cabinet Secret de l’Histoire.
Paris: Albin Michel, 1905.
    Cameron, Keith.
Henri III, A Maligned or Malignant King? Aspects of the Satirical Iconography of Henri de Valois
. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1978.
    Carroll, Stuart.
Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    Castelnau, Michel de.
Memoirs of the Reigns of Francis II and Charles IX of France… Done into English by a Gentleman.
Facsimile of the 1724 British Library edition. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale ECCO, 2005.
    Catherine de’ Medici.
Lettres de Catherine des Médicis.
Ed. Gustave Baguenault de Puchesse. 5 vols. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1880.
    ______ .
Lettres de Catherine des Médicis.
Ed. Hector de la Ferrière. 5 vols. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1880.
    Chamberlin, E. R.
Marguerite of Navarre
. New York: Dial Press, 1974.
    Crawford, Katharine. “Catherine de Médicis and the Performance of Political Motherhood.”
The Sixteenth Century Journal
31, no. 3 (Autumn 2000), 643–73.
    ______ . “Love, Sodomy, and Scandal: Controlling the Sexual Reputation of Henry III,”
Journal of the History of Sexuality
12, no. 4 (October 2003), 513–42.
    Crompton, Louis.
Homosexuality and Civilization
. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
    Diefendorf, Barbara B.
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents
. Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.
    Diggs, Sir Dudly, ed.
The Compleat Ambassador, or, Two Treaties of the Intended Marriage of Qu. Elizabeth of Glorious Memory Comprised in Letters of Negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, Her Resident in France (1655)
. London: Tho: Newcomb, 1655.
    Farge, James K.
Orthodoxy and Reform in Early Reformation France: The Faculty of Theology of Paris, 1500–1543
. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985.
    Fraser, Antonia.
Mary Queen of Scots
. New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1993.
    Freer, Martha Walker.
Henry III, King of France and Poland: His Court and Times
. 3 vols. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1888.
    Frieda, Leonie.
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
. New York: HarperPerennial, 2006.
    Goulart, Simon.
Mémoires de l’estat de France sous Charles IX,
2nd ed. Vol. 1. Geneva: Henry Wolf, 1578.
    Graham, Victor E., and W. McAllister Johnson.
The Royal Tour of France by Charles IX and Catherine de’ Medici: Festivals and Entries, 1564–6
. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979.
    Greengrass, Mark.
France in the Age of Henri IV: The Struggle for Stability
. London and New York: Longman, 1984.
    Hackett, Francis.
Francis the First: First Gentleman of France
. New York: Literary