#henri iv

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La Reine Margot - Charles IX, Henri de Navarre, and Marguerite de Valois

I.III - Un roi poète

I.XXXI - La Chasse à Courre

II.IV - La Nuit des Rois

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Scene from the St Bartholomew's Day massacre: Margaret of Valois protects her husband, the future King Henry IV by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard

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Stefan Eggeler (1894-1969) - "Henri IV"

illustration from Hanns Heinz Ewers' 'Die Herzen der Könige', 1922

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Statue équestre de Henri IV…

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“Napoleon and Henri IV” Chess Pieces

Early 19th century

Artist/maker unknown, French

In the early nineteenth century French emperor Napoléon Bonaparte (1769–1821) was a popular subject for chess sets, appearing opposite a variety of historical figures. Here, the king and queen are represented on one side by Napoléon (in his familiar tricorne) and his wife Joséphine, and on the opposing side by the earlier French ruler King Henri IV (1553–1610) and his wife Marie de’ Medici. As is often the case in French sets, the bishop is replaced by a jester.

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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La Mode illustrée, no. 17, 23 avril 1882, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Bréant-Castet, 6 r. Gluck. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Description de toilettes (Bibliothèque Forney):

Toilette de visite en faille nuance vive de bordeaux et velours épingle rouge. La jupe, plissée perpendiculairement tout autour, est faite en faille. A 10 centimètres de distance du bord inférieur les plis sont arrêtés par une guirlande de feuillage en velours et perles d'or. Paniers et draperie de derrière en velours épinglé rouge. Corsage à pointe en même velours, avec guirlande de feuillage (pareille à celle du bord inférieur) posée sur le côté du corsage. Grand chapeau de paille doublé de faille vive de Bordeaux et garni de fleurs rouges.

Robe en rhadamès bleu-papier (de sucre). La jupe est plissée perpendiculairement à intervalles réguliers. Sur chaque pli une passementerie ajourée à pampilles en saillie. Dernière, draperie très-bouffante. Corsage Henri IV, à pointe, avec bourrelet bouillonné sur son bord inférieur. Au-dessus de ce bourrelet une bande de passementerie. Encolure demi-ouverte, bordée de passementerie. Manches demi-courtes un peu bouffantes, avec longs gants en peau de Suède. Chapeau de paille doublé de velours bleu-papier.

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Visiting ensemble in a bright shade of burgundy and red hairpin velvet. The skirt, pleated perpendicularly all around, is made of faille. At 10 centimeters distance from the lower edge the folds are stopped by a garland of foliage in velvet and gold beads. Baskets and back drapery in red pinned velvet. Pointed bodice of self-velvet, with wreath of foliage (same as lower edge) set at side of bodice. Large straw hat lined with bright Bordeaux faille and trimmed with red flowers.

Paper-blue (sugar) rhadames dress. The skirt is pleated perpendicularly at regular intervals. On each fold an openwork trimming with projecting pendants. Last, very puffy drapery. Henri IV bodice, pointed, with bubbled padding on its lower edge. Above this bead a band of passementerie. Half-open neckline, lined with trimmings. Half-short, slightly puffy sleeves, with long suede gloves. Straw hat lined with paper-blue velvet.

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King Henry IV of France (1553-1610).

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King Henry IV of France. By Frans Pourbus the Younger.

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Deuxième étape de mon périple dans l'Ouest pour retrouver des ami(e)s lointain(e)s , Brigitte et Sylviane à La Rochelle.

La Rochelle : le très joli Hôtel de Ville, avec un cadran solaire, la statue colorée de Henri IV...et Sylviane en caryatide.

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one of the most beautiful examples of female solidarity and female revenge is Mathilde de Toscane, powerful countess and fearsome war leader, who not only convinced the son of her enemy, Emperor Henri IV, to join her own camp, but also learned that the latter had kidnapped and cheated on his wife, Empress Praxedis/Adelaide, whom he also forced to sleep with other men, and so decided to free her and accompany her to Rome herself, so that she could tell the Pope all about it, inflicting on Henri an emotional wound, and a profound military and strategic loss, as well as freeing his wife from his horrors (Mathilde also got her revenge by doing this - Henri had spread the rumor a few years earlier that she was sleeping with the pope. He surely regretted it)

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Henri IV with his Mistress by Louis-Nicolas Lemasle

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Henry IV of France | Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully

Henri 4 (2010)

La Guerre des trônes, la véritable histoire de l'Europe: S3, Ep1 (2019)

Vive Henri IV, vive l'amour! (1961)

La caméra explore le temps: Qui a tué Henri IV ? ou L'Énigme Ravaillac

Ce jour-là, tout a changé:  L'Assassinat d'Henri IV (2009)

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Louis XIII and his mother

While contemporaries thought that Louis inherited his father's "spirit" and intellect, his mother may have had a greater influence on the dauphin's political outlook. Henry sensed a central component of this: the striking resemblance of Louis's stubbornness and displays of temper to the emotional makeup of Marie. He even predicted that they would clash some day. This mother-son connection has been generally overlooked by historians, who have seen Marie de' Medici as a mother in name only, lacking in affection toward her firstborn. Scholars often dismiss Marie's role in Louis's early formation with the erroneous statement that she never kissed him, or did so irregularly.

The fact is, the queen did embrace the heir with regularity, if not exuberance, during his initial years. She also showed care for him in her letters, although these always had a practical bent in contrast to Henry's letters to the royal children's governess, which expressed a sense of joy in the children's very existence. Marie's letters remind one of the adult Louis's correctly concerned letters of condolence to subjects and his properly paternalistic communications with his sisters, surviving brother, and other close relatives.

The queen meticulously held out gifts as rewards for good behavior, while advocating inexorable punishment for "stubbornness." Still, she wrote to the dauphin's governess about the need to avoid whippings during the summer heat if possible, because the temperamental child "could get agitated"; and any beating should be administered "with such caution that the anger he might feel would not cause any illness." After 1609, when Louis's governess was replaced by a governor, the marquis de Souvré, Marie wrote to her son: "I am at ease in knowing that you are well and to learn that you are very well behaved, and that you are studying and doing your exercises. Keep it up and obey what M. de Souvré tells you so he will be able to confirm me always in that good opinion."

Marie's letters to her other children, notably the girls, confirm our impressions of the sort of indoctrination she was giving her firstborn. To Henriette, Louis's youngest sister, she wrote that nothing was more pleasing than her "little exercises." To the middle girl, Christine or Chrétienne, came an admonishment to be compliant like the oldest sister, Elisabeth. The mother's displeasure with the news of Christine's illness, we read with some astonishment, "would be greater if I didn't think of the example of your older sister who has been so well-behaved and obedient in doing what the doctors ordered for her. .. . So that is what I want from you and urge you to do if you wish to be always well loved by Your very good mother Marie."

Louis continued to look for maternal affection, despite Marie's cool demeanor. He was drawn to her also by an acquired filial deference, something that he could never fully shake later on in life, even when breaking with her spectacularly as a teenage king and again as an adult. His early childhood rages and pouting against her were no different from those he displayed so often toward his father, nurse, governess, and physician. Indeed, he could be so excited at the prospect of seeing his mother that he would help make her bed, be impatient if she did not come when expected, and race to kiss her when she finally arrived.

In addition to filial obedience and spontaneous hope, Louis was bonded to his mother by their peculiar positions in the royal family. Although she was clearly queen, and he just as surely dauphin, there was always competition for both of them from the same source —Henry's love affairs. Henry had a habit of acquiring longtime liaisons, in addition to indulging in casual sexual encounters. Furthermore, he somehow always managed to get his current lady friend pregnant in tandem with his wife's regular pregnancies. And he insisted that his legitimate and natural offspring live together at St-Germain under the common care of Louis's governess! This was mortifying enough for Marie, who alternated between fighting with her husband and accepting his affection and concern for her well-being, but it was downright confusing and unnerving for a proud, young heir.

A. Lloyd Moote- Louis XIII the Just

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450 ans et pas une ride !!!

©️isabelle buffet

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King Henry IV of France. By Frans Pourbus.