Henri IV, King of France

She was grandmother to another king of France, Henri IV .

Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing...

The title-page quotes Edward Young on the dangers, for a woman, of love. An Advertisement calls the author only an editor of a French original, but says so many changes have been made that little...

CG , still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane , featuring the French monarch Henri IV .

Reviews were excellent, partly on account of the interest of the subject-matter (which Catherine Talbot for one had found riveting). Johnson in the Literary Review explicitly praised the style as well. In January 1757...

It deals with topical news: the murder by a friar or monk of the French king, Henri III . Henri died on 2 August 1589 after being attacked the previous day. He had previously, under...

This novel was suggested by my reading the Memoirs of the Duc de Sully [translated by Charlotte Lennox ] and falling very much in love with Henri IV . She set it, therefore, in...

AD 's chosen metre, poulter's measure, consists of alexandrines (lines of twelve syllables or six feet) alternating with lines of fourteen syllables or seven feet). She embroiders her prose sources with invented speeches for her...

The selection included here covered Sully's time as ambassador to England, during which he hoped to gain support for Henri IV 's dream of a senate or council of Europe.

CO published her historical biography Henrietta Maria: it opens dramatically, its first chapter relating the murder of the baby Henriette-Marie's father, Henri IV , by François Ravaillac .

Lucy Aikin said that at the time of her death EOB was planning to write a comparable volume of memoirs of the time of Henri IV of France (the former champion of Protestants who converted...

LSC published her translated Specimens of the Early Poetry of France from the Time of the Troubadours and the Trouvères to the Reign of Henri Quatre.

LSC followed up these works with a second historical novel, Gabrielle; or, Pictures of a Reign, published in 1843, and a third travel narrative, Béarn and the Pyrenees: A Legendary Tour to the...

Several poems treat events in history: not only Henry II of England but also the Protestant Henri IV of France . The latter's victory over the Catholic League at the battle of Ivry in 1590...

The second volume opens with the story of La Roque, who eventally turns out to be Laurette's grandfather, Conte della Croissa (though he later reappears as a monk, Father Andrea), and represents benevolent patriarchal power...