#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 d’Henri IV, place du Pont-Neuf, Paris 1er, depuis le quai de Conti, Paris 6e – pierre noire sur bristol, carnet nº 106, 2015.

En 4ème de couverture du livre Le Jour (Alain Beaulet éditeur, 2016).

Collection Pacôme Thiellement.

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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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Young Henri de Guise

Born at Joinville on New Year's Eve, 1549, the life of Henri, third Duke of Guise, was forever scarred by one harrowing event. At the age of twelve he had been forced to watch his father die in agony. The letters he wrote as a 7 year-old to the father, who was away on campaign, reveal a precocious intelligence. Henri idolized his father. When his uncle suggested that he would make a good priest he wrote to his father: "I would rather be next to you breaking a lance or a sword on some brave Spaniard or Burgundian to show that I like much better to fence and joust than to be always shut up in an abbey dressed in a gown." His formal education was, however, brief. At the age of 7 he was sent to Navarre College with the two other Henris, who would one day be his rivals: Henri, the son of Antoine, King of Navarre, and Henri, Duke of Anjou. But it was barely a year before the Prince of Joinville, as he was styled, was summoned by his father to learn the profession of arms. He was soon joined by his younger brother, Charles (born in 1554), while his youngest brother Louis, born in 1555, was destined to inherit his uncle's ecclesiastical empire. Henri was not interested in letters and, in spite of the close attention of his uncle and his grandmother, his knowledge of matters theological was superficial: "I heard the beautiful sermons that my uncle gave at Reims but I promise you," he wrote to his father, "that I will not be about to recite them because they were so long I can only remember half of them." Like his father and grandfather, he was more interested in traditional aristocratic pursuits and his letters resound with the theme of horses, hunting, and war.

In an age when looks and demeanour were thought to herald majesty, the beauty of the House of Guise was renowned. It contrasted with the ugliness that afflicted most of their Habsburg, Valois and Bourbon contemporaries. And the portraits of the new duke support the contention of observers that Henri —as ‘beautiful as an angel’, according to the Venetian ambassador —surpassed even his cousin, Mary Stuart, in looks. He had the trademark pale visage and curly, strawberry blond hair. He was tall too and had a good physique shaped by the usual martial sports and tennis and, more unusually, swimming —he could, it was said, swim across a river in armour. He inherited both his father’s charm and common touch: his immense attractiveness to women and affability with commoners would later be major political assets. If Henri had an Achilles heel it was hubris. In his father, the inbred pride of the aristocrat had been tempered by reserve and modesty, which charmed even his enemies. Henri, in contrast, inherited some of his uncle’s arrogance. A story told by Marguerite de Valois about the young duke is instructive. Asked by her father, Henry II, which prince she preferred, Guise or the Marquis of Beaupréau, son of the Prince of la Roche-sur-Yon, she agreed that Guise was without doubt the better looking but she preferred the other because ‘every day the duke does something bad to someone and always wants to be master’. The story is probably apocryphal but it stood the test of time because it captured something essential.

Stuart Carroll- Martyrs and Murderers: the Guise Family and the Making of Europe

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450 ans et pas une ride !!!

©️isabelle buffet

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