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The Image of Henry III in the Perception of Contemporaries

Student: Roshchupkina Margarita

Supervisor: Pavel Y. Uvarov

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2019

King Henry III of Valois is considered one of the most odious and controversial figures in the history of early modern France, whose rule continues to cause numerous debates. This paper examines the poorly studied question of representation of Henry III in the perception of his contemporaries on the example of the memoirs of Pierre de L’Estoile, Claude Haton, Jean Burel, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, and Nicolas IV de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy. The authors were antipodes: they differed from each other in occupation, place of residence, education, religious and political views. The analysis of their memoirs therefore allows to obtain a comprehensive image of the monarch that existed in the French society at the end of the 16th century and to understand how it changed at a turning point of the French Wars of Religion, when many usual concepts were transformed or destroyed.

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