Nantes and the origins of the Catholic League of 1589

Sixteenth Century Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 109-128

  Tingle, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60949350478     PISSN: 03610160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4144245     Document Type: Review

References (56)

1. Pamphlet d'un politique Nantais exilé à Rennes (Rennes, 1590)
2. Extracts printed in Guy Saupin, Nantes au temps de l'Edit (La Crèche: Geste Editions, 1998), 142
3. Henri Drouot, Mayenne et la Bourgogne, 2 vols. (Dijon: Bernigaud et Privat,1937)
4. Elie Barnavi, Le Parti de Dieu: Etude sociale et politique des chefs de la Ligue parisienne, 1585-1594 (Louvain: Nauwelaerts, 1980)
5. Bernard Chevalier, Les Bonnes Villes de France du XIVe au XVIe siècle (Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1982)
6. Robert Descimon, Qui étaient les Seize? Mythes et réalités de la Ligue parisienne (1585-1594), Mémoires de la Fédération des Sociétés Historiques et Archéologiques de Paris et de l'Ile de France, 34 (Paris, 1983)
7. Denis Crouzet, Les Guerriers de Dieu, 2 vols. (Paris: Champ Vallon, 1990)
8. Philip Benedict, Rouen during the Wars of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
9. One recent study is that of Bernadette Lécureux, "Une ville bretonne sous la dictature d'un gouvernement ligueur: Morlaix en 1589-1590," Mémoires de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Bretagne 66 (1989): 137-55
10. Robert Harding, "Revolution and Reform in the Holy League: Angers, Rennes, Nantes," Journal of Modern History 53 (1981): 379-416
11. Saupin, Nantes, 207
12. Robert A. Schneider, Public Life in Toulouse 1463-1789 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989)
13. Mark Konnert, "Urban Values versus Religious Passion: Châlons-sur-Marne during the Wars of Religion," Sixteenth Century Journal 20 (1989): 387-405
14. Barbara Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)
15. Schneider, Public Life in Toulouse
16. Penny Roberts, A City in Conflict: Troyes during the French Wars of Religion (Manchester: Manchester University Preśs, 1996)
17. Crouzet, Les Guerriers de Dieu
18. Benedict, Rouai during the Wars of Religion
19. Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross
20. Barthélemy Poquet, Histoire de la Bretagne, vol. 5 (1515-1715) (Rennes: Plihon & Hammay, 1913; repr. Mayenne: J. Floch, 1975), 156
21. L'Abbé Travers, Histoire civile, politique et religieuse de la ville de Nantes (Nantes: Forest, 1837), 2:357
22. Archives Municipales de Nantes (hereafter AMN) BB 4 fol. 347v, Assemblée du conseil des bourgeois. See the detailed study of the contest between the reformed community of Nantes and the municipality for provision of a site of public worship, in Penny Roberts, "The Most Crucial Battle of the Wars of Religion? The Conflict over Sites for Reformed Worship in Sixteenth-Century France," Archiv für Reformationgeschichte 89 (1998): 247-67
23. Poquet, Bretagne, 88
24. The history of Protestantism in southern Brittany is summarized in Poquet, Bretagne, 52-58
25. Philip Benedict, "The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres in the Provinces," Historical Journal 21 (1978): 217
26. Konnert," Urban Values versus Religious Passion," 388
27. See for a discussion of legitimacy, S. Annette Finley-Croswhite, Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 2
28. Benedict, Rouen, 168-69
29. AMN BB 21 fols. 8v-9r, Déliberations municipales 1588-89
30. Harding, "Revolution and Reform," 397-98
31. L. Grégoire, La Ligue en Bretagne (Paris: Dumoulin; Nantes: Guéraud, 1856), 24-25
32. Henri Lapeyre, Une famille de marchands: Les Ruiz (Paris: Armand Colin, 1955), 431
33. Guy Saupin, Nantes au XVIIe siècle (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1995), 276-77
34. Alain Croix, "Deux notes sur Nantes," Annales de Démographie Historique (1970): 144-47
35. Lapeyre, Une famille des marchands, 586
36. AMN GG 744, Assistance aux pauvres 1580-89
37. AMN EE 60, Milice bourgeoise
38. See also Finley-Croswhite, Henry IV and the Towns, 16
39. P. Parfouru, ed., Une saisie de navires marchands anglais à Nantes en 1587 (Rennes: Oberthur, 1893)
40. See Chevalier, Les Bonnes Villes, 53
41. AMN BB 4 fol. 253v, Assemblée du conseil des bourgeois
42. AMN EE 150, Fortifications
43. Penny Roberts, "Religious Conflict and the Urban Setting: Troyes during the French Wars of Religion," French History 6, no. 3 (1992): 260-61, shows that in Troyes, the Guises, governors of Champagne, came increasingly to dominate the city government through their clients in the city council. In Nantes, the governor and his client, the commander of the château garrison, had less influence over municipal decisions
44. Travers, Histoire civile, 2:480
45. AMN EE 211, La Ligue
46. Grégoire, La Ligue, 34
47. James B. Collins, Classes, Estates and Order in Early Modern Brittany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 1, 14, argues that in the sixteenth century the king attacked the political status quo by seeking to move French governance outside the framework of contract and into that of law, where he had unlimited authority. The systematic undermining of alternative centers of authority, such as towns, formed part of that process
48. Descimon, Qui étaient les Seize? 62, 65
49. See Poquet, La Bretagne, 116-19, for a discussion of Mercoeur's ducal claims
50. These institutions marked out Nantes as superior to her rival, Rennes. See Jean Boutin, Apologie pour la communanté de Nantes (Nantes, 1619)
51. Collins, Classes, Estates, and Order, 20
52. AMN CC 75, Taxation 1575
53. Mack P. Holt, The French Wars of Religion 1562-1629 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 129
54. Drouot, Mayenne et la Bourgogne, "Conclusions."
55. Batnavie, Le parti de Dieu
56. Saupin, Nantes au XVIIe siècle, 255-61