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  • FRANCIS I AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
    ROBERT J. KNECHT
    The reputation of Francis I, king of France (1515-47 ) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as ’noble’ and ’great’ in the sixteenth century, he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourbon kings and the republic. But, in the twentieth century, research based on archival material has restored his standing as one of the most important rulers of his age. The present vo...

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  • HERO OR TYRANT? HENRY III, KING OF FRANCE, 1574-89
    ROBERT J. KNECHT
    King Henry III of France has not suffered well at the hands of posterity. Generally depicted as at best a self-indulgent, ineffectual ruler, and at worst a debauched tyrant responsible for a series of catastrophic political blunders, his reputation has long been a poor one. Yet recent scholarship has begun to question the validity of this judgment and look for a more rounded as...

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