provided to the deputies to Rome in spring 1589 was included so that the Pouvoir Ligue reader might truly understand au the task they had been set. Later, – ‘connoistre vray’ – letters were included because convient scavoir qui estoient ceux appelloit les ‘il qu’on Seize: car beaucoup de gens sont It mattered to the historian that qui sera s’y trompés’. ‘ce du mien ne dément point ces pieces inserées en mon and that ne fera point discours;’ ‘l’un de tort a The spirit of the comment was good, but the flesh is weak! Evidently, as l’autre…’ both narrator and selector of sources, the historian would have no difficulty in achieving the desired consistency. We re-visit the issue of sources in chapter 4. But first, we meet the historian.
Pouvoir provided to the Ligue deputies to Rome in spring 1589 was included so that the reader might truly understand – ‘connoistre au vray’ – the task they had been set. Later, letters were included because ‘il convient scavoir qui estoient ceux qu’on appelloit les Seize: car beaucoup de gens s’y sont trompés’. It mattered to the historian that ‘ce qui sera du mien ne dément point ces pieces inserées en mon discours;’ and that ‘l’un ne fera point de tort a l’autre…’ The spirit of the comment was good, but the flesh is weak! Evidently, as both narrator and selector of sources, the historian would have no difficulty in achieving the desired consistency. We re-visit the issue of sources in chapter 4. But first, we meet the historian.