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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Robert Descimon and José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez. Les ligueurs de l'exil: Le refuge catholique français après 1594. (Epoques.) Seyssel: Champ Vallon. 2005. Pp. 317. €26.00.

This book by Robert Descimon and José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez takes up the history of the ultra-Catholic League that seized power in late sixteenth-century France at the point that most other historians abandon it: Henri IV's conversion to Catholicism in 1593. This event is usually seen as marking the beginning of the end for the League; everything that followed Henri's 1594 entry into Paris, which had bitterly resisted his claims to the throne, was a kind of mopping-up operation, with his ultimate triumph all but assured. Descimon and Ruiz Ibáñez remind us that Henri's victory only looks this certain in hindsight. The radical members of the League who fled when Henri entered Paris or were subsequently exiled on his orders did not by any means believe that this reversal signified the final defeat of their cause. Taking up residence in other Leaguer towns or across the border in the Spanish Netherlands, they continued the fight with swords, sermons, polemics, and prayers. Each used the weapon that suited his talents and experience: noblemen served with their retainers under Spanish command, clerics warned that Henri's false conversion undermined the sanctity of the state, and jurists published treatises justifying continued Spanish intervention in French affairs and even urging the election of Philip II as king of France.

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