Author: FRANCE. Henri III
Title: Lettres patetes du Roy, pour l'accroissement & augmentation de l'appanage de Monseigneur le Duc d'Alençon son frere. Lev‘s & publiees à Paris en Parlement, le vingt quatrieme jour de May 1576.
Description: Lyon: Michel Jove & Jean Pillehotte, 1576. 8vo. 13, [1]p. Modern marbled paper wrappers. **** Published slightly later in the same month as the Edict of Beaulieu which marked a watershed in the Wars of Religion in France. The edict, known as the 'peace of Monsieur' because to contemporaries it appeared that it had been forced upon Henri III by his younger brother the Duke of Alençon, gave generous concessions to the Huguenots. Shortly afterwards, by these letters patent Henri gave to his brother Alençon the rich duchies of Anjou, Touraine and Berry to add to his apanage, together with the right to make all appointments to offices and benefices in the new duchies. Alençon was also given the title of Duke of Anjou, the prestigious title held by Henri III before he succeeded to the throne in 1574. See W.P. Holt, The Duke of Anjou and the politique struggle during the Wars of Religion, pp.65-8. Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, vol.2, p.437; Catalogue de l'histoire de France, vol.1, p.298, (Lb34, no.152). Not in Robert O. Lindsay & John Neu, French political pamphlets, 1547-1648: a catalogue of major collections in American libraries. No copy traced in NUC or BL.

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