Abbott tells the life of Henry of Navarre against the religious wars that tore sixteenth-century France apart: his Huguenot upbringing, his marriage to Marguerite of Valois on the eve of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, years of captivity and civil war, his conversion to win Paris, and the reign that ended with an assassin’s knife in 1610.
Vivid, moralising popular history from the Makers of History series, a good first book on France’s best-loved king. Download the free EPUB.