| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Christelle Cazaux. La musique à la cour de François I^er. Foreword by Philippe Vendrix. (Mémoires et documents de l'École des Chartes, number 65; Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Collection "Épitome musical.") Paris: École nationale des Chartes. 2002. Pp. 414. €40.00.

Despite the volume of recent research on Francis I as a patron of the arts, there has hitherto been no comprehensive study of the musical life of the Valois court during the first half of the sixteenth century. Perhaps the reasons for this are the widely acknowledged dearth of relevant government archives and the lack of credible documentary sources to substantiate the king's reputation as a lover of music. Undaunted by such constraints, Christelle Cazaux's four-part study sets out to answer a number of important questions. Did Francis really cultivate music as he did architecture, sculpture, and poetry? What place did music occupy in the image that the French monarchy wished to project of itself, and what institutional framework was set up for its support? A review of the nature and extent of the archives central to this inquiry serves as a prelude to the first part, which begins with a discussion of the cultural conditions that nurtured the unprecedented musical activity of Francis's reign. After examining the musical institutions (the Chapel and the Écurie, or Royal Stable) inherited from his predecessors, the author scrutinizes the evidence for regarding Francis as a music lover and finds that it is almost wholly apocryphal or the result of special pleading.

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