Henry IV
In the memory of the French, Henry IV is the only king to have never fallen from grace. His death crowned him with an indestructible popularity, and his reign quickly became a melting pot of our history. The caustic Gascon who scorned fear, the man of action who eschewed idle chatter, the bon vivant, the man of the chicken in the pot, the Vert-Galant confident in his conquests: so many idealized images that Jean-Pierre Babelon readjusts without bias or indulgence.
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