From Cardinal de Retz to Mazarin, in thirty years Simone Bertière has established herself as a great historian of the Ancien Régime: in her own way, discreet and with an elegance never lacking.
It is his personal mark, and that of his essays, clear and learned.
Here is
Henry IV and Providence
.
We admire Madame Bertière for daring to use this suspicious word in our era of rationalism.
And yet she is keen on it, so much the accession of the King of Navarre seems to obey a mysterious logic.
Nothing automatic in this course, and so many happy combinations of circumstances that the historian, supported by her archives, wants, after the king himself and so many of his contemporaries, to see in it "
a higher will
".
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Let us judge.
At his death, Henry II left four sons and a formidable widow, Catherine de Medici.
Two of these princes reigned under the name of Charles IX and Henry III (the latter was even king of Poland for a time) but they died without posterity, leaving the field open to their cousin and brother-in-law from Bearn.
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