La mémoire protestante de la Saint-Barthélemy en France : du témoignage à l’histoire nationale
How did Protestants view the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre? During the sixteenth century, it was most commonly evoked as a case of premeditated royal treason or a conspiracy organized by the pope and the Kingdom of Spain. A virtually immediate…
Commémorer la Saint-Barthélemy ? Le monument à Coligny de l’Oratoire du Louvre
The monument of Gaspard de Coligny erected in the rue de Rivoli in Paris in 1889, right beside the Protestant church of the Oratoire du Louvre was, until 2016, the only commemorative trace of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre to…
L’image négative de Luther dans la propagande en vers français des années 1520-1530
During the first half of the sixteenth century (ca. 1520-1540), Franc saw the appearance of several texts in verse and the vernacular composed against Luther. This article examines these texts to understand the function of poetry in works that do…