Download or read book France in the Sixteenth Century written by Frederic J. Baumgartner and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-11-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the golden age of the Renaissance state and the catastrophic era of the Wars of Religion, this fascinating period in French history has been oddly neglected by English-language historians. Professor Baumgartner's book fills a major gap in the textbook market: an accessible, fully current account which covers the principal political, economic and cultural themes from Francois I's successful centralization of the state, through France's near prostration under the Catholic-Huguenot civil war, and ending with the accession of Henri IV.