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What was it like for Charles to have this man as father? Was an academic career his own choice? Did he experience doubts when, one year after the ‘triumph’ of his first book, news arrived that his brother Jean had just received la croix de guerre and had been nominated for la Légion d’honneur for action in the Dardanelles? We can be sure that Charles was aware of the expectations of his father’s friends. Langlois pointed out that the manuscript of the work on Charles IX should not be lost: ‘les soins pieux d’un fils accompli, très bien préparé pour procéder à une revision nécessaire par ses études personnelles à l’Ecole des Chartes, le mettront, aussitôt après la guerre, en état d’être publié’. It was in June 1908 that Charles Valois, a newly qualified archiviste-paléographe, made known to the Société de l’Histoire his desire to produce an edition of the Histoire de la Ligue. He already knew the text well: it had been the subject of his thesis at the Ecole. He had noted Albert Gérard’s use of passages from the Histoire in the late historian’s unfinished work, La Révolte et le siège de Paris, published posthumously in 1907. Charles’s proposal to the Society was full of youthful enthusiasm for the text – ‘[une] vaste et intéressante compilation écrite par un contemporain anonyme et restée jusqu’à ce jour presque inconnu’. His goal was to produce ‘une édition partielle... environ un quart du texte.’ In his proposal he noted that the writer had been not only a Ligueur, but also one of the few who had not renounced their former affiliations. The text offered insights that other writers had, ‘par calcul ou par négligence’, omitted. In addition, it carried ‘certaines relations contemporaines des faits, aujourd’hui perdues...’.