The true story of Henry IV, the unloved “good king”

2024-02-27T15:14:11.630Z

Highlights: The true story of Henry IV, the unloved “good king”. How, in a kingdom torn apart by religious wars, Henry IV- Did he legitimize his power? What was his relationship to Protestantism after his conversion to Catholicism? How was the myth of “ good King Henry” built after his death? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Jean-Christian Petitfils, historian, biographer of the Bourbons, and author of a biography "Henri IV" (Perrin)

Stéphane Bern recounts, on the occasion of the 430 years that separate us from his coronation, a sovereign, king of Navarre before becoming king of France, ready to do anything to keep his place on the throne in the face of a people who, in the midst of wars of religion, wanted to dislodge him. Or the true story of Henry IV, the "good king", as history has nicknamed him, a “good king” yet unloved... How, in a kingdom torn apart by religious wars, Henry IV- Did he legitimize his power? What was his relationship to Protestantism after his conversion to Catholicism? How was the myth of “good King Henry” built after his death? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Jean-Christian Petitfils, historian, biographer of the Bourbons, and author of a biography "Henri IV" (Perrin)