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La Rochelle, 1530–1650: Urban Society, Religion, and Politics on the French Atlantic Frontier
. Leiden, New York, and Köln: Brill, 1997.
    Roeder, Ralph.
Catherine de’ Medici and the Lost Revolution.
New York: Viking Press, 1937.
    Roelker, Nancy Lyman.
Queen of Navarre: Jeanne d’Albret, 1528–1572
. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.
    Shimizu, Junko.
Conflict of Loyalties: Politics and Religion in the Career of Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, 1519–1572.
Vol. 114 of Travaux D’Humanisme et Renaissance. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1970.
    Sichel, Edith.
Catherine de’ Medici and the French Reformation
. Reprinted from the 1905 edition. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004.
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The Later Years of Catherine de’ Medici
. London: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., 1908.
    Smoley, Richard.
The Essential Nostradamus
. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006.
    Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duke of.
The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime-Minister to Henry the Great.
Translated by Charlotte Lennox. 5 vols. Philadelphia: Edward Earle, 1817.
    Sutherland, N. M.
The French Secretaries of State in the Age of Catherine de Medici
. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.
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The Massacre of St Bartholomew and the European Conflict 1559–1572
. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
    Van Dyke, Paul.
Catherine de Médicis
. Vols. 1 and 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922.
    Viennot, Eliane.
Marguerite de Valois: “La reine Margot.”
Paris: Perrin, 2005.
    Waldman, Milton.
Biography of a Family: Catherine de Medici and Her Children
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.
    White, Henry.
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew: Preceded by a History of the Religious Wars in the Reign of Charles IX.
London: John Murray, 1868.
    Whitehead, A. W.
Gaspard de Coligny: Admiral of France
. London: Methuen & Co., 1904.
    Williams, H. Noel.
Henri II: His Court and Times
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910.
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Queen Margot: Wife of Henry of Navarre
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907.
    Wilson, Ian.
Nostradamus: The Man Behind the Prophecies
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
    Wintroub, Michael. “Words, Deeds, and a Womanly King,”
French Historical Studies
28, no. 3 (Summer 2005), 387–413.
    Wood, James B.
The King’s Army: Warfare, Soldiers, and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562–1576
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Illustration Credits

    Map of La Rochelle ( here ):
Rochella Munitissimum Galliae Opp.
Digital Source: Braun and Hogenberg,
Civitates Orbis Terrarum II
[First Latin edition of volume II], 1575, Eran Leor Cartographic Collection, National Library of Israel.
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Portraits en pied d’Henri II et de Catherine de Médicis, roi et reine de France.
Peinture anonyme Française, 16ème siècle. Musée du Château Anet. © Josse/Leemage.
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Portrait suppose de Diane de Poitiers, maitresse de Henri II dans son bain.
Peinture de François Clouet, 1560-1570. National Gallery of Art, Washington. © Luisa Ricciarini/Leemage.
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Portrait de François Ier, roi de France.
Peinture de Jean Clouet, c. 1530. Musée de Louvre, Paris. © Josse/Leemage.
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Portrait d’Antoine de Bourbon, roi de Navarre, père du roi Henri IV.
Peinture de l’Ecole Française du 16ème siècle. Musée du Château de Versailles. © Josse/Leemage.
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de Jeanne d’Albret, reine de Navarre.
Peinture de François Clouet, 1570. Musée Condé, Chantilly. © Josse/Leemage.
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Vue du massacre des Protestants de Wassy (Vassy) perprete le 01/03/1562 par les gens de François Ier de Lorraine 2ème duc de Guise et marquant le dèbut des guerres de religion.
Gravure Collection particulière. © Josse/Leemage.
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Portrait en pied de François de Lorraine, duc de Guise.
Peinture de Peter Pourbus (1523-1584). Musée des Beaux Arts, Nancy. © Josse/Leemage.
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Portrait de l’admiral Gaspard de Coligny.
Peinture anonyme, 16ème siècle.