Pierre de L'Estoile and his World in the Wars of Religion

The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. This study offers a new history of these Wars of Religion from the perspective of the period''s great diarist and collector, Pierre de L''Estoile (1546-1611), telling the story of his life and times.When historians interpret these events they inevitably depend on sources of informa...