Eric Durot

Lycée français de San Francisco · History

Duke François de Guise (1520-1563) has never been the subject of a thorough study. An interesting source allows us to get an insight into the very character of this Catholic exclusivist : wall paintings in the Hotel de Guise chapel, which have faded but whose copy and preliminary drawings by Primaticcio still exist. These paintings, executed in the...

In 1561, after four years of crisis, which were also its apogee, the Auld Alliance came to an end. Under the influence of Henry II, sustained by the Guises, Mary Stuart, whose mother, Mary of Guise was the regent of Scotland, was married to the Dauphin of France, Francis (1558). She claimed the English crown as well, an unbearable claim for Elizabe...

The Edict of Compiègne clearly defines how the " prédicants " are perceived by the royal authorities : the predicant acts for himself and on behalf of those he represents, he is the most important vehicle for heretic ideas and scandals, he is responsible for insurrectionary acts and obeys the preachers in Geneva. This image is built upon the tradit...

Un récit du siège de Metz (1552) présente une source originale et peu exploitée : c’est le corpus des lettres écrites au roi Henri II durant le siège, par le lieutenant général à Metz, le duc François de Guise. Au‐delà de ce que doit rendre compte un capitaine à son souverain, ces lettres permettent, par leur contenu subjectif et par leur style, d’...

The purpose of this essay is to describe the way in which the substantial circulation of men and ideas between France and Scotland ultimately turned against Marie de Guise and the kingdom of France in the years 1559 and 1560. In order to build a Franco-Scottish kingdom, an initial step towards a Franco-British Empire, the King of France, Henri II,...

Authored by an international team of researchers, this article considers the evolution of political and diplomatic relations between Russia and France, with a special emphasis on the events of 1555, when France attempted to create a European alliance to fight the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. The authors analyse a letter from Henry II de Valois...

Peindre en leur âme des fantômes: Image et éducation militante pendant les guerres de religion. Florence Buttay. Collection “Histoire.” Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018. 372 pp. €28. - Volume 72 Issue 3 - Eric Durot

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Registration is now open! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transnational-approaches-to-the-french-wars-of-religion-tickets-43308239109 . The dominant historiography of the French Wars of Religion tends either to have a national or a local perspective. This conference aims to rethink these wars by transnational approaches, from Edinburgh to Rome and t...

It is an unexplored topic: the influence of John Knox and his subversive works on the outbreak of the French Wars of Religion at the turn of the 1560s. Nevertheless... The Conference Proceedings will be published by Brepols, 2020.

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Depuis l’affaire des placards (1534) mais surtout à partir des règnes d’Henri II (1547-1559) et de François II (1559-1560), le statut des protestants français semble basculer : considérés d’abord et avant tout comme des « hérétiques », ils deviennent au milieu du XVIe siècle des « rebelles » qui agissent « soubs couleur de religion ». La législatio...

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François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, was one of the major political figures in France from 1547 until his death in 1563. In his quest for divine salvation and social recognition he was the driving force in Henri II's project for universal rule, a staunch defender of Catholics, and a supporter of the fragile reigns of both François II and Charles IX...