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Recueil des Lettres Missives de Henri IV by BERGER DE XIVREY, M
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Book desription: Paris : Imprimerie Royale, 1843-1858. First edition. Seven large and thick quarto volumes. Folding plates. Publisher's printed buff boards (Vol. II in publisher's printed wrappers), untrimmed and unopened. Light soiling to boards. Very rare in the original boards. A very good copy. Part of the Collection de documents inŽdits sur l'histoire de France, the standard primary source of French medieval documents. Lacks the Supplement volume published in 1876. "No figure in France has been more popular than that of "Henry the Great." He was affable to the point of familiarity, quick-witted like a true Gascon, good-hearted, indulgent, yet skilled in reading the character of those around him, and he could at times show himself severe and unyielding. His courage amounted almost to recklessness. He was a better soldier than strategist. Although at bottom authoritative he surrounded himself with admirable advisers (Sully, Sillery, Villeroy, Jeannin) and profited from their co-operation. His love affairs, undoubtedly too numerous (notably with Gabrielle d'Estrees and Henriette d'Entragues), if they injure his personal reputation, had no bad effect on his policy as king, in which he was guided only by an exalted ideal of his royal office, and by a sympathy for the common people, his reputation for which has perhaps been exaggerated somewhat in popular tradition by the circumstances of his reign" (EB).
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