League memories : recollections of Catholic political engagement in late sixteenth-century Paris
The Histoire anonyme is an important manuscript for our understanding of the Catholic Ligue â especially in Paris â in the late sixteenth century. Written a generation after the demise of that movement in the mid-1590s, the original manuscript was later copied and then bound in two large volumes which were housed â until the Revolution â in the library of the Paris Oratoire. They now reside in the BibliothĂšque nationale as manuscrits franĂ§ais 23295 and 23296. The first volume of the Histoire traces the story of the Ligue down to spring 1589. A severely edited version made by Charles Valois appeared in 1914. The second volume, a direct mid-story continuation from the first, takes the narrative through to Henri IVâs triumphal entry into Paris in March 1594. As well as covering events in the capital â particularly the regicide, the long siege and the Brisson affair â the historien anonyme frequently leads us into the provinces for (borrowed) accounts of battles and sieges. The work is frequently punctuated by inserts of contemporary documents and it is laced with the authorâs opinions. Yet, for all its evident interest, it has been largely overlooked by historians and it remains unpublished.
Critchlow, Melville Mark
League memories : recollections of Catholic political engagement in late sixteenth-century Paris. The Histoire anonyme is an important manuscript for our understanding of the Catholic Ligue â especially in Paris â in the late sixteenth century. Written a generation after the demise of that movement in the mid-1590s, the original manuscript was later copied and then bound in two large volumes which were housed â until the Revolution â in the library of the Paris Oratoire. They now reside in the BibliothĂšque nationale as manuscrits franĂ§ais 23295 and 23296. The first volume of the Histoire traces the story of the Ligue down to spring 1589. A severely edited version made by Charles Valois appeared in 1914. The second volume, a direct mid-story continuation from the first, takes the narrative through to Henri IVâs triumphal entry into Paris in March 1594. As well as covering events in the capital â particularly the regicide, the long siege and the Brisson affair â the historien anonyme frequently leads us into the provinces for (borrowed) accounts of battles and sieges. The work is frequently punctuated by inserts of contemporary documents and it is laced with the authorâs opinions. Yet, for all its evident interest, it has been largely overlooked by historians and it remains unpublished.
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