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Debbagi-Baranova, Tatiana. "Écrits diffamatoires et troubles civils : une culture politique dans la France des Guerres de religion." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040109.
Full textDuring the religious wars and for the first time in history, lampoons took part in the political and religious conflict. Banned by a whole range of laws and moral rules, slanderous writings were allowed only on specific occasions: when a criminal was punished or when an external enemy was fought. However during the civil upheavals, they became a weapon for the aristocratic parties, the clergy, the Protestant spiritual leaders and even for individuals. Justified by the exceptional circumstances of the failure of royal arbitration, slanderous writings take the solemn form of public charges against an enemy of God or State. Why do lampoons seem so dangerous? Examining the question from the point of view of the producers, this multi-disciplinary study explores their means of persuasion, their choices in manner and matter, their modes of publishing and the way writings are integrated into the tactics of collective or individual action
Ropp, Laurent. "Un passé dépassé ? : les mémoires protestantes des guerres de Religion (vers 1685-2022)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Le Mans, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024LEMA3006.
Full textWhile French Protestants cultivate the memory of St. Bartholomew's Day since the 16th century, the context of the Wars of Religion (1562-1598), in which the infamous massacres occurred seems to attract much less of their attention. However, these civil and religious conflicts represent a major crisis in national history and mark the first time that French Protestants took up arms. The purpose of this study is to grasp, over the long term, the memories of these conflicts within the communities that emerged from the Reformation.From the 1680s, marked by an interconfessional controversy over the French Wars of Religion, to the 450th anniversary of St. Bartholomew's Day (2022), this research sheds light on how the present influences the memory of the struggles of the late 16th century and examines the extent to which these past conflicts remain relevant in the centuries that followed. A vast corpus of printed materials, supplemented by more original sources, such as 526 responses to an online questionnaire, has been used to account for the reactivations of memory and to uncover the continuities and transformations in the representations and uses of these conflicts. Focused on French Reformed communities, while also incorporating Lutherans and Evangelicals from France as well as Protestant communities from three countries hosting the Huguenot diaspora, this investigation also offers a reflection on the unity and plurality of Huguenot memories
Crouzet, Denis. "La Violence au temps des troubles de religion, vers 1525-vers 1610." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376128306.
Full textBernard, Mathilde. "Ecrire la peur au temps des guerres civiles : une étude des historiens et mémorialistes contemporains des guerres de religion en France (1562-1598)." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030091.
Full textAt the height of the Wars of Religion and in the following decades, many are those, in France, who want to keep a record of what they are living through. They choose to write History, or to narrate Lives. They leave papers from which later generations will write memoirs. In all those narratives, they depict the fury of the times and the feeling of fear which everybody is experiencing—the fear of being killed, of seeing the world collapse, or France fall under foreign domination. Showing and telling is not their sole purpose. They endeavour to understand when and why humanity lost its balance. The immense hopes of the humanists were violently shattered. Such disappointment has to be redressed. Those who preserve the memory of this sombre period therefore fight through their writings, in order to save man from sinking into despair, to urge him to dominate his passions—endangering his integrity as well as a whole civilisation— and ultimately, to help him recover his threatened dignity. This attempt at reconstruction comes with a deep questioning of the basis of power. Man’s emancipation always carries sedition
Le, Roux Nicolas. "Courtisans et favoris : l'entourage du prince et les mécanismes du pouvoir dans la France des guerres de religion." Le Mans, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997LEMA0004.
Full textThis work studies the court of france as a point of contact between royalty and nobility from henri ii to henri iv (ca. 1547-ca. 1598). It focuses on the royal entourage (courtiers and favorites) as a political actor of the wars of religion, but also examines cultural attitudes at court. The sources are mainly manuscripts (correspondances, lists of the officers of the royal household, registers of the royal counts and councils, military companies, private acts), but published sources have also been studied (pamphlets, political literature, treatises concerning the nobility). The first part presents the patronage system of the renaissance monarchy from 1547 to 1574. The second analyses the entourage of henri iii at the beginning of his reign, the position of the "minions", the formation of factions and the reformation of the court. The third examines the failure of the royal attempt to take control of the nobility in the 1580's
Scorbiac, Benjamin de. "La carrière politique, judiciaire et municipale d'un officier calviniste entre Guyenne et Languedoc, Guichard d'Escorbiac (1527-1608)." Toulouse 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOU10074.
Full textThe archives left by Guichard d'Escorbiac enable us to attend the career of this Calvinist officer, from 1550, as a lawyer in Montauban, to 1606, when he resigned his office as an adviser at the Chamber of the Edict of Castres. He receives confidence responsibilities within the strategic fields of his time, especially in the Financial and administrative part of his city. He gains the King of Navarre's trust, which allows him to step in the king's close network as a "Master of Requests Ordinary" of his private Hotel. As a deputy, the Prince Bourbon's adviser plays a main part in the negotiations of Poitiers in 1577, and Nerac in 1579, before he distinguishes himself in their implementation in Rouergue and Quercy. After he became the Financial superintendant of the generality established in Montauban since 1585, he manages a quite important amount of money. Thereby he's in control of the supplying of the sinews of war. All along his career, his first capacity as a lawyer, gives him special concern for communication, which we can observe through his letters and speeches ; he thinks upon justice and the political difficulties of his time. Studying his career enlights the stakes of the religions wars and completes the numerous studies already made on Montauban or on the King of Navarre. It gives us to complete the numerous studies already made on Montauban or on the King of Navarre. It gives us to complete the reflections on ambivalence and dilemmas of many Calvinist officers taken to position themselves from 1560 within the turmoil of the first civil wars
Broch, Julien. "Les "Politiques" (1559-1598) : contribution à la théorie de l'Etat royal." Aix-Marseille 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX32088.
Full textThe "Politiques" are magistrates and jurists who're going to take the defense of the kingship during the French Wars of Religion. They're catholics of moderate ideas who recommand a policy of tolerance justified by the idea that the State is first in comparaison to the questions of faith. Threatened in its principle, the monarchy needs of their part a work of clarification of it foundations. They try to reach the restoration of the State in order to impose the peace. Around the Chancellor Michel de L'Hospita they made the choice to change the king into an arbitrator above the religious factions ; beneath that affirmation, there's a crucial idea that the sovereign cannot be at the head of the party. Certain jurists and scholars as Pasquier, Le Roy or Du Haillan follow the teachings of Seyssel and detect in the past of France the trace of a mixed regime. After the St. Bartholomew's day massacre (24th August 1572), the radicalization of the monarchomachs and catholics political ideas encourages the Politics adhere to the idea of the strong State. Bodin will be the theorist of this party who advocates the absolute independence of the king. This change proves that moderation allows them to adopt the most compatible attitude with their cause. To defend the rights of prince Henri of Navarre to the crown, they associate the Salic law with the divine law and the natural law. As consequence, the prince detains a power of divine right which makes of him a deus in terris. This consolidates the idea that the power to make the law is surely the monopoly of the sovereign. The « Politiques » also participate in the development of the « national » feeling which has for consequence that the State is a unity embodied in the king. Finally, the conjunction of the gallicanism and the religious « irénisme » seems, in many consideration, to be convenient on the return to the Protestants inside the Church of Rome
Meyniel, Corinne. "De la Cène à la scène : la tragédie biblique en France pendant les Guerres de religion, 1550-1625." Thesis, Paris 10, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA100077.
Full textStarting from a corpus composed of the about forty tragedies based on vetero-testamentary subjects, written in French between 1550 and 1625, this doctorate studies what part tragedy owns to medieval inheritance which it has reformed rather than denied. Noting that between mystery and tragedy there is no rupture but a transition, the thesis details the different movements composing the passage. The protestant spiritual practice, the catholic militant practice being established in their boundaries and defined, as well as a period during which the vetero-testamentary tragedy is no longer the work of authors who don’t use the scriptural material to convert or convince any more, the process of secularisation is then observed through the prism of the contemporary evolution of the eucharistic piety
Champeaud, Gregory. "La réception des édits de pacification à Bordeaux et en Guyenne au cours des guerres de religion (1562-1600)." Bordeaux 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008BOR30017.
Full textThe registration of the edicts of pacification at the parlement of Bordeaux and in Guyenne during the French wars of religion is brought about by several causes. The content of these texts first allows to give a definition which insists not only on their secularized and contractual features, but also on their will to organize an institutional coexistence of faiths with the restoration of the catholic church in its rights and properties, and the granting of worship and civil rights to the protestants. Besides, a comparative study shows how the Edict of Nantes (1598) drew its inspiration both from the former legislation issued before the civil wars and from a matrix made of three previous edicts of pacification. The geostrategical situation of the gouvernement of Guyenne and the city of Bordeaux, as well as the important number of protestants in and out those territories, account for their permeability to rumours during the civil wars. This context explains the will of the king and local organs of authority to control them too. The king and parlement of Bordeaux both see the pacification process as an opportunity to strengthen their eroded authority. But the parlementaires claims to act as guardians of the order and unity of the province against internal as well as external disruption, and their commitment to defend their institutional prerogatives, come up against three main facts that help to understand their attitude towards pacification. The first is the inner divisions between militant catholics and the supporters of the political necessity for religious and civil compromise, which tore apart the parlement at that time. The second is the royal will to restore its power and prestige symbolized by the dispatching of commissioners in charge of the implementation of the policy of pacification. The third is the presence of Henri of Navarre, using Guyenne as a land of political apprenticeship and whose ambitions challenge those of the parlement in the province. The attitude of the parlement of Bordeaux is, then, paradoxical. In spite of its catholic commitment - shown on several occasions - it resigns itself to a peace which, however, undermines its judicial prerogatives
Amalou, Thierry. "Loyalisme monarchique et consensus urbain : Senlis devant les désordres religieux vers 1520 - vers 1610)." Paris 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA010545.
Full textMorgant, Tolaïni Bruno. "Agir par le verbe. Mémoires et mémorialistes des guerres de Religion." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH164.
Full textDisfavour, retreat or exile invite women and men to think about the events which took place during their life. Looking back, everyone has the opportunity to go back in time and face his successes, pitfalls or failures. Whether it was on battle fields, at the Court or behind the closed doors of cabinets, in a way or another, they played a role in the public affairs in that time and they are still yearning to make themselves heard. Setting pen to paper and writing down those moments, they suddenly become chroniclers. They consequently turn from the status of storybook characters to the status of storywriters granting themselves a prominent place. Their editorial initiative was thought out, nurtured and part of the troubled times of the wars of the second half of the 16th century. Those writers were undoubtlessly writing with a specific aim.Because they correct what could have been said on the chronicler, Memoirs act on his past ; because they allow to experience again a past that no longer exists and suggest a change in conditions, they act on his present ; because they pertain to his social and family transmission, they act on his future. Those three aspects cannot seem to be dissociated, writing Memoirs is undeniably polymorphous. While setting pen to paper, every chronicler acts out through the verb
Cassan, Michel. "Le temps des guerres de religion en Limousin vers 1550 et 1630." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040036.
Full textFrom the middle of the XVI th century to the fall of la Rochelle, the Limousins were facing three debates, the reformation in the years 1550-1564, the politic power from 1565 to 1602, the catholic reform and counter-reform after 1590 and the return of the "ligueurs" in their town. Four events merked this period - the late protestantism's penetration by the nobility's patronage or by a seignioral contestation. In this case, the urban elites which drived the movement, were probably justified in their action by Charles IX which deprived the ecclesiastical lords of their rights; - the politic urban emancipation during and at the end of the wars of religion; - the state's growing and the administrator's affirmation becoming an greater actor in the provincial political configuration after his victorious struggle against the league; - the reform and counter-reform animated by the devouts and accompagnied by the recombining of the catholic elite and destroying the still coexixtenetween. . . . Catholics and calvinist during the first XVII th century
Lagrée, Marie-Clarté. ""C'est moy que je peins" : recherches sur les figures de soi à l'automne de la Renaissance." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040171.
Full textWhat representation of the self lies behind Montaigne's statement "Car c'est moy que je peins" ("for it is my selfe I portray") ("The Author to the Reader", The Essays, 1580)? What elements make up this portrait and how is it framed? The aim of this study, which focuses on the latter part of the French Renaissance (c. 1560-c. 1630), is to examine the manner in which the imagined representation of the human being (persona) is projected to form a cultural construct. This research, which draws on a very broad spectrum of source types, offers an analysis of the various images of the self that were either already established or emerged during that period. This analysis suggests that a shift in perception occurred during the 1580's, challenging the hitherto dominant representation of the persona as depicted in the Scriptures and the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Hippocrates and Galen. This representation extended beyond differences in faith or in the personal interpretations of scholars. The reasons for this unravelling, the manner of its expression and the consequences thereof are analysed in this study, as are the restructuring movements that took hold during the first third of the 17th century. Although Catholics and Calvinists continued to agree on a dominant configuration, they did not react in the same way to this unravelling movement, and developed different responses. Thus, by the 1630s, the respective persona of the two communities was not exactly the same as in the mid-16th century. The anguish of the body was stronger for the Catholics, whereas the Calvinists stressed the value of consciousness and rehabilitated human reason
Souriac, Pierre-Jean. "Une société dans la guerre civile : le Midi toulousain au temps des troubles de religion (1562-1596)." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040146.
Full textBetween 1560 and 1600, while the kingdom of France was embroiled in the War of Religion, Toulouse and its surrouding area was experiencing the civil war in its own way. A stronghold of staunch Catholicism, Toulouse acted as a sperhead in the defence of the Roman Church, at the centre of an axis leading from the Comminges to the Rouergue, passing through the Albigeois. Facing them, Montauban, Castres, and the Conty of Foix stood as bastions of the protestant faith. Civil war was born from this regional confrontation. The aim of this thesis is to understand how Southern society was able to mobilize its forces in support of one of the other of the two camps in what was one of the main theatres of the war. Who was able to mobilize men, money, munitions and provisions during the long years of the civil war ? Which authorities were in a position to control the destinity of the region, and by what means ? What became of the Kingdom and the idea of monarchy in this Southern region of France ? Research carried out in the archives of a variety of institutions - Crown, Parliament, the regional Estates of Languedoc and the Comminges, the local governments of towns and villages - enables us to depict an original picture of the civil war in the regions. For historians, it raises the issue of an increasing militarization of society, at the intersection between voluntary involvement and the contraints of au country at war
Mailly-Carpi, Olivia. "Amiens et la ligue (vers 1550-1597) : genèse, modalités et enjeux d'une révolution municipale." Paris 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA010561.
Full textImreh, Nicolas. "Une "bonne ville" dans le feu des luttes des grands : Chartres à l'époque de la seconde guerre de religion, 1567-1568." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/17660.
Full textDoucet, Romain. "Sous les ailes de l’archange. Saint Michel à l’épreuve de l’histoire (France, XVe XVIIe siècle)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL116.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the destiny of saint Michael in France in early modern times. In the context of a spirituality multiplying devotional practices, the archangel, by his place in the liturgy, the belief and the society, is indeed a key figure of the cult of the saints in the late middle ages. Elsewhere, thanks to the Capetians, in the 15th century, he moreover becomes the true defender and the guardian angel of both the king and the French monarchy. Therefore, he is not spared by the reformists who questioned the cult of the saints and who, by iconoclastic acts targeted Catholic and royal symbols, during the French troubles of religion. But his ancient importance and the victorious ideal he carries place him first in the Catholic reconquest, at the height of the Wars of Religion. However, this political use had an impact on the archangel, who lost his lustre in the 17th century. Drawing on a vast corpus of textual and iconographic sources, taken from a wide variety of forms and themes, this study aims to make the archangel a actor of the history of the French kingdom in a time of upheavels and to reveal Michael as the emblematic figure of the royal and French providentialism
Bouvignies, Isabelle. "Éléments pour la reconstruction de la genèse de l'État de droit constitutionnel démocratique des guerres d'Italie (1494-1559) aux guerres de religion (1559-1589) : Machiavel, Bodin et la réforme française." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040222.
Full textMachiavelian political thought emerged on the foreground of an obliteration of the religious conception of the world, among the disorders created by the wars of Italy. In France, Bodin thought, on the contrary, as wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants were at their most, was claiming that the “royal monarchy” was the only solution to avoid religious division — his proposition of a royal State is usually considered as a prefiguration of modern State. The rule of law appears actually as a legal structure for State. In fact, the concept of absolute sovereignty is the core of Bodin’s theological and political thought. The bodinian State is not founded on constitutional and democratic premises, but on a domestication of violence. After 1572, in the kingdom of France, immediate disciples of Calvin: Bèze, Duplessis-Mornay and Hotman, reacted to the royal violence. Their convictions were also religious, but founded on another conception of the relation between politics and religion. In some way, we can say that the modern State was born from this tension between absolute sovereignty — which is a conception of law — and a new conception of religion, inclining to autonomy, through the claim for individuals to practise their religion freely, and even under a State as warrant — which is another conception of law, and of the rule of law
Vignes, Jean. "Des mots dorés pour un siècle de fer : les mimes, enseignements et proverbes de Jean-Antoine de Baif." Paris 10, 1987. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=JvsMS01.
Full textThis comprehensive study of the mimes, enseignements et proverbes offers a succession of various approaches to this little known work. After a short biographic inquiry about Baif's social and personal position during the reign of henry III, chapter II deals with the way the work came into being (1574-1589), the different editions (1576, 1581, 1597, etc. ) And the fortunes of the text. Chapter III is an attempt at finding some kind of structure or formal rules in this apparently chaotic work. The study of the sources (IV) shows the scope and the variety of this gnomic compilation. It also reveals the diverse processes by which are adapted and cast into the same mold maxims and lessons borrowed "tant des anciens auteurs hebrieus, grecs et latins, que du commun usage des peuples françois, italiens et espagnols". However, this huge anthology gains its full meaning in the troubled context of the wars of religion; therefore chapter v reviews Baif’s political and religious development during this period: he can be regarded as a "politique", supporting civil peace against the ligue's intolerance and deploring the great's incapacity to handle the ills of the kingdom. The last chapter shows Baif divided between multifarious aims: militant ambition and didacticism, desire for poetic pleasure and satire, sheer outrage against his time leaving him in a state of total despair and confusion
Lafrance, Félix. "Pierre Matthieu et l'empire du présent : Clio dans les guerres de Religion françaises." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25855/25855.pdf.
Full textLeclerc, Lafage Valérie. "Montpellier au temps des troubles de religion : pratiques testamentaires et confessionnalisation (1554-1622)." Bordeaux 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004BOR30058.
Full textIn the city of Montpellier, the Bas-Languedoc capital, the Wars of Religion are all the more furious because basically the town is divided almost equitably between Catholics and Protestants, but also because it is inhabited by Christians on the fringe of established confessions. The testamentary practices, widely developed countries where statute laws are prevailing, reveal not only the attitudes towards death, and the eschatologist expectations but also the social structures of an Ancien Regime population. Through testaments, we can discern a confessionalization process, never global but which varies according to the activity field which the individuals are implicated in. In the public sphere, to be catholic or protestant becomes, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, a social mark among others. In the religious sphere, a confessionalization appears when visible piety's practices are noticed, even if this period is marked by a catholic indifference and the incapacity of some Huguenots to break with age-old acts of Catholicism. If spiritual religiosity is considered, as expressed in testamentary invocations, the confessionalization fades away on the profit of an homogeneous relation that people keep up with God. All the paradox lies in a social confessionalization that pushes men to kill each other on the name of God when, fundamentally, they have never been so close
Kang, Nam-Soo. "La première période de coexistence religieuse en France : entre la paix d’Amboise (mars 1563) et la deuxième guerre de religion (septembre 1567)." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100142.
Full textBoltanski, Ariane. "Les Nevers : une maison noble et ses clientèles dans la trame de l' État royal (vers 1550 - vers 1620)." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010648.
Full textSolignat, Anne-Valérie. "Les noblesses auvergnate et bourbonnaise : pouvoir local, stratégies familiales et administration royale (vers 1450-vers 1650)." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010667.
Full textGradel, Olivier. "Les relations diplomatiques entre la France et le Saint-Empire romain germanique, à l'époque des Guerres de Religion." Littoral, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006DUNK0303.
Full textMarmen, Cynthia. "Entre mentalités et traditions à la cour de France : le pouvoir politique de Catherine de Médicis vu par ses opposants au temps des Guerres de religion." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28356.
Full textThis thesis concerns the history of Catherine de Medici : a woman, a queen, a wife and a mother. In this study, we analyze the representations of the female political power between 1560 and 1589. Hence, it’s also focuses on the history of the monarchy during the French Wars of Religion and his organization. We look into the traditions and the organization of the French court, as well as the complex relations linking the crown, the bourgeois and members of the nobility during a dark part of French history. Through those thirty years, Catherine managed to retain a wide and strong power in spite of opposing mentalities. For various reasons stemming from political, social, religious and economic matters, her political opponents disapproved of a woman holding such authority. For instance, according to them, women were unfit for the regency because of their acute emotivity and the danger that might arise from their influence on the king. Therefore, Catherine used other means such as art, correspondence and social networks to assert her role as a powerful female figure.
Deruelle, Benjamin. "De papier, de fer et de sang : chevaliers et chevalerie à l'épreuve du XVIe siècle (ca. 1460-ca. 1620)." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010640.
Full textMingous, Gautier. ""Selon les nouvelles que vous nous ferez savoir" : Information et pouvoir à Lyon au tournant des guerres de Religion : (Vers 1552- vers 1576)." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2069.
Full textCities in the 16th century were a fertile ground for the propagation of all kinds of information. Whether conveyed by merchants or in private spheres, all news items were necessary to know about the situation of distant regions but could also prove to be dangerous when their content was uncertain. Urban powers endeavoured to control the circulation of information in order to turn them into a political tool. In a society where information was perceived as a token of power that allowed the elite to act on reality, a new method to manage and control it was implemented, on which urban powers built their political action thanks to the emergence of an increasingly specialised administration. This question of the command of information was all the more urgent as a civil war was challenging the unity of the city.Focusing on the city of Lyon, an economic capital and a border city of the French realm,my goal is to analyse the role played by the handling of information in the government of a city in the midst of Religion wars. The letters and official documents of lay authorities show all the different ways the urban elite appropriated the circulation of informat ion, its search and itselaboration into an official discourse meant to be communicated to other authorities and to the population. These questions shed light on the growing codification of “good information” which served the purpose of political decision-making. The circulation of all news controlled by the urban powers also unveils the many networks woven with the king, the court andnumerous cities, both near and far from Lyon.Thanks to messaging services that were increasingly institutionalised, the municipal authorities of Lyon created networks in order to defend the city’s interests, to react to the conflicts unfolding and to the rumours spreading in order to remain in control. This organisation aimed to tighten the grip of the elites on the city and to justify their social status
Giraudier, Fanny. "Les Grands et le roi : pouvoir et contestation à la cour des premiers Bourbons (1589-1629)." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2137.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to understand the relationships between the King and the nobles at the end of the Wars of Religion. This period is marked by a weakening of the royal authority and the division of nobility between factions with different religious faiths. In order to restore order in the kingdom, the King must rely upon nobles whose vocation is to bear arms. However, many nobles don’t recognize him like as a legitimate sovereign. Through war, negotiations and a wise policy of legitimation, Henri IV achieves his goal of rallying them behind his authority. This thesis aims to understand this reconciliation process, on what basis it is founded and how nobles contribute to redefine royal power. Even though peace has been restored since 1598 with the Peace of Vervins and the Edict of Nantes, protests of nobility are not shut and flared several times until 1629. The modalities of the revolt are at the heart of this thesis, that is, the way nobles express their discontent and justify their oppositions against the sovereign. The court provides an ideal environment for the observation of the power dynamics between the King and nobles, men and women. The choice of the period from 1589 up to 1629 allows one to follow the evolution of the relations with the monarchical authority and evaluate the weight of honor, driving force of nobility action as well as the defense of faith in the nobles’ positions. This extensive period allows to apprehend how nobility protests contribute to the building of the monarchy during a period marked by religious conflicts
Grand-Dewyse, Camille. "Langage et image : essai sur les émaux peints de Limoges, 1540-1580." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040024.
Full textThis research aims to understand the iconographical evolution of 16th century Limoges painted enamels from the 1540s to the 1580s. During this period, mythological and profane themes appear in what had previously been an exclusively religious art. Concurrently, religious scenes shift their focus to concentrate on Old Testament imagery. This study links the diffusion of the new images with the political and religious circumstances of their creation, demonstrating both the ascension of the Reformation in France and the formulation of a royal response to the schismatic presence of new faiths. The investigative method adopted is structured around the theme of violence and its various alternatives to reestablish peace. Extending the analysis to a national level provides meaningful elements proper to refining the interpretation and reveals the immediate historical context of the enamels' creation, namely the local sphere of Limoges during the religious wars. Furthermore, by gathering ideas from various intellectual and religious spheres and allowing the analysis to proceed in different directions the enameled images become equivocal, oscillating between evangelism and Reformation
Aracil, Adrien. "Histoire d'une liberté dans la France moderne. Protestants, politique et monarchie (vers 1598 - vers 1629)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022SORUL071.
Full textThis thesis questions the political history of the French Reformers at the beginning of the seventeenth century through the prism of the notion of freedom : freedom as a defense of the legal gains conferred by the Nantes edict regime, but also as a capacity for action. Far from considering the Huguenots as the passive victims of an «all Catholic France», it considers them as political actors. This capacity to act is analysed in two stages: first, we examine the characteristics underlying this freedom of action in the context of the seventeenth century, through a study of the place given to institutions, memory, union and language in Reformed practices. We then study the «implementation» of this political freedom, questioning the evolutions of the Huguenot party, from the relationship to the institutions, to the nobility, to the language strategies following the death of Henri IV. Finally, we dedicate a last part to the «killing» of this political culture: the end of the Huguenot party, widely documented, is not the result of internal dissension, but of a political will that seeks to attack this freedom
Bouteille-Meister, Charlotte. "Représenter le présent : formes et fonctions de "l’actualité" dans le théâtre d’expression française à l’époque des conflits religieux (1554-1629)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100133.
Full textDisplaying contemporaneous events on the theatre stage does not necessarily need to involve mythological or historical transposition. Often neglected or even despised by theatre critics, the representation of contemporaneousness, however, offers a particularly fertile field of study when it comes to analysing how individuals reflect on their own existence in Time.During times of religious conflict in Europe, both Catholics and Protestants alike used the stage as a powerful vehicle to stir controversy; situated at the crossroads between multiple forms and influences, theatre can provide its public with a re-presentation of present time both entertaining and critical, designed to strengthen a community’s actual and intellectual unity. What is more, forms and functions of “topicality” on stage evolve and develop further as religious conflict shifts from the theological to the political battleground and hope for reconciliation is overshadowed by escalating armed conflicts.Whilst Protestant topical theatre finds numerous concurrent signs of the imminent end of the world, the topical theatre created and represented at the Catholic Valois court tries desperately to maintain the illusion of a Golden Age of concord; soon thereafter, however, an Age of Iron is acknowledged, in which theatre reflects the violence and bloodthirstiness of its time and calls on the audiences to take action. When the compromise of the edict of Nantes imposes peace and amnesty, this pragmatism is substituted by a drive towards memorialisation: performing the present on stage becomes a matter of remembrance, at a time when the Bourbon monarchy tries to turn the recent past into a legend
Carsalade, Céline. "La prudence, un concept utilisé par Loisel pour retrouver l'amitié dans l'ordre juridique." Paris 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA020051.
Full textPeña, Santiago Francisco. "De la querelle à l’agonie. Les enjeux épistémologiques des humanistes français face au schisme religieux (1524-1604)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040039.
Full textThis Ph.D. dissertation tries to measure how the violent dynamic of the 16th century, encouraged by the Reformation provoked dissention in between French Humanists. The analysis takes the debate between Erasmus and Luther of 1524 as a point of departure, considered as the paradigmatic example of the impossibility of finding some compatibility between the different versions of the philological, stylistic, ethic, religious and epistemological enthusiasm of the Humanists. Their fundamental oppositions concerning the free will showed that the Humanists were forced to take the will of reformation with caution to avoid the harm of their own epistemological fundaments. On the other hand, the clash between these men had a very large impact in France because Erasmus was one of the main influences of the French Humanism but also because of the failure of his collatio. The center of gravity of the research is the Saint-Bartholomew Night’s Massacre because it left an impression over the humanists’ consciences that the analysis of the discourses before and after the killing may allow to recover the common basis of their discourses. This common basis encouraged violent dynamics but let paradoxically survive an irenic trend marked by the skeptic tradition, which would be one of the most characteristic signs of the historiographical readings of the humanist discourse
Martin, Olivier. "Un défenseur de la cause protestante sur la scène européenne - L'ambassadeur anglais Henri Norris à la cour française durant la troisième guerre civile (1568-1570)." Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26294/26294.pdf.
Full textMicallef, Fabrice. "L' Europe des possibles : crises et compétitions politiques pendant les "Affaires de Provence" (vers 1580-1610)." Paris 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA010574.
Full textDurot, Eric. "François de Lorraine (1520-1563), duc de Guise entre Dieu et le Roi." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040098.
Full textFrançois de Lorraine, duc de Guise, was one of France’s most influential politicians from 1547 to 1563, at the time of his death. Although a potent figure, he hasn’t been the subject of any serious historical study. Yet, historical sources are numerous. This thesis is much more than a traditional biography : it aims at questioning the identity of De Guise as an aristocrat and his commitment as a man who figured himself as standing between God and his king.Prince of the Renaissance, François de Lorraine built up his influence by relying on both his heritage and identity as a member of the Lorraine family and his power derived from the de Guise family and his close association with his brother Charles, the Bishop of Lorraine. The duke undertook his quest for divine salvation and political recognition in two different historical contexts which determined and influenced his actions. First, under the reign of Henry II (1547-1559), he acted as the Christian king’s executioner with the view to establishing a universal monarchy.Then, between 1559 and 1563, when the kingdom of France suffered from crises which were deep and manifold, the duke posed as the protector of the Catholics against Calvinism which he considered as heresy. He resisted it by assuming the role of a protector sent by God to assist the two young kings, François II and Charles IX
Ndong, Sangoul. "Le discours de l’enrôlement dans la poésie militante des guerres de religion. Pierre de Ronsard et Agrippa d'Aubigné." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL039.
Full textWith The Tragics, Aubigné demolishes the accusations of sedition and heresy conveyed on the account of the Huguenots by Ronsard. Arises between this work and the Discourses of political and religious cleavages where the poetic creation is, on behalf of the camp of each poet, the means to favor some provisions on the allocutaries. The question of reception thus occupies a central place in these two antagonistic works. It poses the problem of enlistment. This is a set of rhetorical resources whose challenge is to convince the adversary of his mistakes, to strengthen the partisans and to conquer public opinion. What are these resources that allow Ronsard and Aubigné to put their speakers in specific roles for their respective parties ?In our thesis, we are interested in the following questions : under what ethical traits do Ronsard and Aubigné speak each to subordinate his allocutaries to his convictions ? Who are these allocutaries ? With what discursive processes do the two poets act on the thoughts and behaviors of these recipients? Towards the theses of what poet is likely to lean readers ?With these questions, we have observed the roles of the enunciator's representation and his figures in the enlistment discourse, the categories of allocutaries and the oratorical styles set in motion to produce persuasion, firmness and mobilization
Thierry, Eric. "Un pionnier de la Nouvelle France : Marc Lescarbot (vers 1570-1641), "Homme d'étude" de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1997. https://acces.bibliotheque-diderot.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/index.php?module=App&action=FrameMain&colname=ColGarnier&filename=EtyMS01.
Full textA pioneer of New France because he was involved in Jean de Poutrincourt's attempt at colonizing Acadia from 1606 to 1615, Marc Lescarbot was also a "study man" of the first half of the XVIIth century, that is to say a Christian humanist on whom the memory of the wars of religions had left its mark, a man eager to take part in France's regeneration. This Vervins-born man, who became a lawyer at the Paris parliament, who even crossed the Atlantic to live in the new world in 1606 and 1607, and who braved the treacherous Swiss alps to be at the service of a French ambassador from 1611 to 1616, expressed his fears and hopes, not only in his harangues delivered at Vervins on the occasion of the franco-spanish peace signed in 1598, or in his poetical picture of Switzerland, a traditional ally of the French sovereign, or in his epic poems in praise of Louis XIII, who had defeated the English on the isle of Ré and subdued the inhabitants of la Rochelle, but also in his written pieces about New France, which he saw as a land of plenty and opportunity. He believed that the nostalgia in which he shared with his learned contemporaries, for the golden age, happiness and Acadian peace under the benevolent rule of shepherd-kings could allow him to draw up a viable colonial project. His New France was in fact nothing but a literary fiction that could appeal to some people but that was bound to remain a utopia. It did not even attract the king's attention and aroused the suspicion of the citizens of the "republic of the letters". So far, only literature historians have been interested in Marc Lescarbot, above all Québec and Acadian ones, who placed him in their literary pantheons in the 1960s. However historians who study mentalities can find in all his works a particularly rich expression of the fears and dreams of the French intellectuals of the first XVIIth century
Sag, Mélanie. "Les guerres civiles dans les romans anglais et français de l'époque baroque (1580-1668) : poétique du roman, anatomie du conflit et usages de la fiction." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070032.
Full textThis work examines the use of civil wars in English and French novels between 1580 and 1668 that is to say during the Baroque period. At this time, France and England were going through a revolutionary political, religious but also social crisis. Our framework is based on genre studies, contemporary theories of fiction and historicity. We aimed at shedding a new light on novel's poetics and analysing the articulation of fact and fiction through the study of a corpus of thirty little-known novels. The comparison between the French novels and the English ones implies to identify what defines the genre of early modern novel and its boundaries for both countries, and determine the genealogy of the narrative models used by the authors. We then establish the poetics of war through the analyses of the narrative functions of war sequences, the way characters are build up and the stylistics of violence (staged or faded). Finally, we suggest an interpretation of the novels. From the remembrance of wars of religion to the record of the English Revolution, Baroque novels constitute a specific form of historical fiction, characterized by the displacement of collective stakes and the metaphorisation of the religious division to the level of the couple or the family but also the recycling of the allegorical writing style. The Baroque novel is dedicated to love as opposed to the epic genre, it offers various and complex representations of civil war, this internai conflict questioning one's identity, faith and sense of belonging, three key concepts of the early modern novel
Ricard, Joly-Anne. "Le roi face à ses sujets révoltés : l'égalité devant le pardon dans la France de Henri IV, (1589-1598)." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24179/24179.pdf.
Full textPeña, Santiago Francisco. "De la querelle à l’agonie. Les enjeux épistémologiques des humanistes français face au schisme religieux (1524-1604)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040039.
Full textThis Ph.D. dissertation tries to measure how the violent dynamic of the 16th century, encouraged by the Reformation provoked dissention in between French Humanists. The analysis takes the debate between Erasmus and Luther of 1524 as a point of departure, considered as the paradigmatic example of the impossibility of finding some compatibility between the different versions of the philological, stylistic, ethic, religious and epistemological enthusiasm of the Humanists. Their fundamental oppositions concerning the free will showed that the Humanists were forced to take the will of reformation with caution to avoid the harm of their own epistemological fundaments. On the other hand, the clash between these men had a very large impact in France because Erasmus was one of the main influences of the French Humanism but also because of the failure of his collatio. The center of gravity of the research is the Saint-Bartholomew Night’s Massacre because it left an impression over the humanists’ consciences that the analysis of the discourses before and after the killing may allow to recover the common basis of their discourses. This common basis encouraged violent dynamics but let paradoxically survive an irenic trend marked by the skeptic tradition, which would be one of the most characteristic signs of the historiographical readings of the humanist discourse
Goldman, Oury. "Faire connaître le monde au XVIe siècle : traductions et appropriations des savoirs sur le monde dans la France de la Renaissance." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0159.
Full textDuring the early modern era, the european overseas expansion intensified the circulation of goods and people around the World. From the 16th century, the Iberian expansion contributed to change the relationship between the Europeans and the terrestrial globe and was followed by the production of a vast array of texts and materials, which were sometimes printed, and then translated into a variety of European languages. By examining various translations intro French, published in Paris and Lyon around 1500, of some sixteenth century accounts of the « New Worlds » and other « foreign lands » (among others the writings of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Paolo Giovio or Giovanni Battista Ramusio), the thesis reviews the way through which a renewed knowledge of the world is locally produced. By focusing on the entire translation process, from production to its multiple appropriation, it becomes possible to understand how one makes the world known in sixteenth-century France
Mounier, Hélène. ""Tu rendras tes serments au Seigneur" : Une histoire politico-religieuse du serment. XVIe-XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON10039.
Full textThe oath represents a key instrument for calibrating the prominence of the religious sphere combined with the political situation that characterizes the early modern period (16th-18th century). Thus, it appears that particularly troubled times -religious wars, then the French revolution- present a regular use of the oath, primarily intended to reinforce the solidity of bonds and agreements. The use of the institution experiences an unprecedented evolution as early as the religious wars, thus highlighting the need to express ideological allegiance along with the traditional guarantee of loyalty. During that painful period and especially at its conclusion, the oath conveys a national unity now primarily revolving around the political bond; the religious dimension, although still fundamental receding into the background. The Revolution is a golden age for the oath of allegiance, which enables “the new man” to provide the indispensable sanctity for the regeneration of the society he wishes to be dechristianized. During the period, the oath plays the role of exclusion while laying a foundation for the revolutionary repression. Above all, the institution conceals destructive effects, even when it is supposed to be the building tool of the new City. Resorting to the oath during the periods currently presented emphasizes the building of the Modern State through a sacralization of politics. However, as the very essence of the institution lies in its religious roots, an oath, either secular or laying the foundation of a strictly secular society may not exist without risking becoming meaningless or turned into a mere promise
Durot, Eric. "François de Lorraine (1520-1563), duc de Guise entre Dieu et le Roi." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040098.
Full textFrançois de Lorraine, duc de Guise, was one of France’s most influential politicians from 1547 to 1563, at the time of his death. Although a potent figure, he hasn’t been the subject of any serious historical study. Yet, historical sources are numerous. This thesis is much more than a traditional biography : it aims at questioning the identity of De Guise as an aristocrat and his commitment as a man who figured himself as standing between God and his king.Prince of the Renaissance, François de Lorraine built up his influence by relying on both his heritage and identity as a member of the Lorraine family and his power derived from the de Guise family and his close association with his brother Charles, the Bishop of Lorraine. The duke undertook his quest for divine salvation and political recognition in two different historical contexts which determined and influenced his actions. First, under the reign of Henry II (1547-1559), he acted as the Christian king’s executioner with the view to establishing a universal monarchy.Then, between 1559 and 1563, when the kingdom of France suffered from crises which were deep and manifold, the duke posed as the protector of the Catholics against Calvinism which he considered as heresy. He resisted it by assuming the role of a protector sent by God to assist the two young kings, François II and Charles IX
Martysheva, Lana. "Le pari de l’Hérétique. Les prélats royalistes et la légitimation d’Henri IV." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL001.
Full textThis dissertation investigates the French monarchy during a moment of crisis, focusing on an exceptional political bet made by a number of catholic prelates who chose to support Henri IV, a Protestant king. Their varied political actions are studied here, and the mechanisms of their work of legitimation of the first Bourbon are reconstructed, with a particular attention to the first years of his reign. The emphasis on these years offers the opportunity to give back to this period its dimension of uncertainty, as lived by the actors of the monarchy, a dimension that is generally erased under the weight of the history of the pacification, beginning with the Edict of Nantes. The choice of a short period allows a careful analysis of ceremonies of great symbolic importance, such as the royal abjuration and coronation. Too often these events have been merely narrated by historiography. This analysis, however, seeks to reconstruct their problematic dimension. Specific attention will be paid to the choices made when these events were published, which constituted a second staging of the act in printed form. With the focal point placed on the political commitment of the prelates, which at times was explicit, and at other times remained discreetly hidden away, it becomes possible to understand the monarchy as the collective work of multiple actors who endeavoured to ensure its survival. Thus, by proposing an alternative reading of events to the Navarro-centric vision that largely dominates historiography, this approach discusses the end of the Wars of Religion from a new perspective, which uncovers lesser known actors, who nonetheless played a crucial role in this process
Ferrer-Bartomeu, Jérémie. "L’État à la lettre. Institutions de l’écrit et configurations de la société administrative durant les guerres de religion (vers 1570 - vers 1610. Royaume de France)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, Ecole nationale des chartes, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ENCP0002.
Full textThis study explores how the French Royal State establishes at the heart of its apparatus of power structures specialized in the manipulation, projection, and reception of political writing. These structures are intended to end the troubles of the Wars of Religion, to win political positions against corps and communities, and to strategically, politically, and theoretically arm both battles as well as military and ceremonial contacts across Europe. The actors in these new structures are secretaries of State and secretaries. From this exceptionally intense political crisis, they help bring about a new governmentality that prepares and announces the coming of the administrative monarchy and the pre-bureaucracies of the second part of the 17th Century. As the heart of the state and the conduit of royal desire, secretaries mobilize their professional skills in the service of the sovereign. Their functional position in the state grows into the cutting edge of a political society undergoing intense restructuring. They thus form an administrative society with codes, uses, and practices closely related to their Spanish and English European counterparts, following the increasing internationalism of the Wars of Religion. The heuristic concept of the European “Republic of bureaus” once more asks questions regarding the transnational circulation of administrative knowledge and the transfers of government models. The increased attention to the materiality of the work of government bureaus on the European scale gives this study the dimension of a cultural history of the State, centered on the games of actors and scales, the resolution of conflicts, and the collaboration and connections at the heart of networks of information
Marchand, Romain. "Henri de La Tour : (1555-1623)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100131/document.
Full textHenri de La Tour d’Auvergne (1555-1623), viscount of Turenne and maréchal-duc de Bouillon, was one of Henri de Navarre’s principal lieutenants during the French Wars of Religion. Having lived a long life, he was involved in most of the political events during the 1570’s, from the creation of the Malcontents, to his death, particularily during the reign of Marie de Medicis and the Thirty years war. Towards the end of his life, satirical writings and criticism from Sully, Richelieu and Rohan, marred understanding of his actions, portraying him as a perpetual troublemaker, ungrateful to the king and quick to revolt. This negative portrait of his character is due to the political context of the 1610’s during which he was one of the main figures. Such a distortion is a reaction to the spectacular political and social ascent of the House of La Tour d’Auvergne from the middle of XVth century onwards in which he played a leading role. It is also due to a dynamic tension starting with his arrival in Sedan in 1591, in his duties as a subject of the King of France, as leader of the Huguenots and as a sovereign prince abroad. His great reactivity is explained by his varied functions – as ambassador, war leader, a well-read prince, builder, legislator – and his participation at the heart of powerful networks, which he sometimes controlled, throughout the Kingdom of France and Protestant Europe
Godbout, Ariane. "La mémoire rompue : les défis de la coexistence confessionnelle au consulat lyonnais (1563-1567)." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27955.
Full textLa paix d'Amboise (1563-1567), qui suivit le premier conflit ouvert entre catholiques et protestants en France, constitue une période particulièrement riche pour l'étude des premières manifestations de la coexistence confessionnelle au sein du royaume. À Lyon, ville tombée aux mains des huguenots en 1562, le pouvoir royal imposa notamment un partage des charges municipales entre catholiques et réformés, obligeant les tenants des deux confessions à gouverner la communauté ensemble, malgré leurs réticences à travailler avec leurs ennemis d'hier. Ce mémoire vise, grâce à une analyse des délibérations consulaires, à faire état de la manière dont les consuls instrumentalisèrent la tradition du corps de ville et les rituels civiques pour faire valoir leurs intérêts respectifs dans leurs querelles, tout en respectant le cadre législatif imposé par la couronne de France.
The peace succeeding the Edict of Amboise (1563-1567), which followed the first open conflict between Catholics and Protestants in France, constitutes a particularly rich period for the study of the first appearance of denominational coexistence within the kingdom. In Lyon, the royal power notably imposed that municipal offices be shared between Catholics and Protestants, forcing the members of each denomination to govern together, despite their reluctance to work with their past enemies. By way of an analysis of the city council's registers, this essay's goal is to give an account of the way city councils exploited the traditions of the "corps de ville" and its civic rituals to assert their interests during disputes whilst still respecting the legal framework imposed by the French crown.
Ferrer-Bartomeu, Jérémie. "L’État à la lettre. Institutions de l’écrit et configurations de la société administrative durant les guerres de religion (vers 1570 - vers 1610. Royaume de France)." Thesis, Paris, Ecole nationale des chartes, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ENCP0002/document.
Full textThis study explores how the French Royal State establishes at the heart of its apparatus of power structures specialized in the manipulation, projection, and reception of political writing. These structures are intended to end the troubles of the Wars of Religion, to win political positions against corps and communities, and to strategically, politically, and theoretically arm both battles as well as military and ceremonial contacts across Europe. The actors in these new structures are secretaries of State and secretaries. From this exceptionally intense political crisis, they help bring about a new governmentality that prepares and announces the coming of the administrative monarchy and the pre-bureaucracies of the second part of the 17th Century. As the heart of the state and the conduit of royal desire, secretaries mobilize their professional skills in the service of the sovereign. Their functional position in the state grows into the cutting edge of a political society undergoing intense restructuring. They thus form an administrative society with codes, uses, and practices closely related to their Spanish and English European counterparts, following the increasing internationalism of the Wars of Religion. The heuristic concept of the European “Republic of bureaus” once more asks questions regarding the transnational circulation of administrative knowledge and the transfers of government models. The increased attention to the materiality of the work of government bureaus on the European scale gives this study the dimension of a cultural history of the State, centered on the games of actors and scales, the resolution of conflicts, and the collaboration and connections at the heart of networks of information