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Le fleau de Henry soy disant roy de Nauarre : Par lequel auec viues raisons il est chasse de la couronne de France, qu'impiement & tyranniquement il se veut vsurper.

Chaudière, Guillaume, d. 1601 · 1589 · A Paris : Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, rue S. Iaques ..., 1589 · 1 picture

Le fleau de Henry is a 1589 polemical pamphlet printed in Paris by Guillaume Chaudière, directed against Henry of Navarre and aimed at a French Catholic readership. Its single picture is a large decorative woodcut initial, an ornate letter I with scrollwork and foliage beside a block of black-letter type, which a designer might take as a model for display capitals and border ornament.

Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610 · Bourbon, Charles, Cardinal de, 1520-1590 · Huguenots

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