Île aux Bœufs, Loire: negotiations for the Pacification of Amboise in 1563 between the Queen Mother (regent for Charles IX), and the Huguenots, showing her receiving deputies at her tent. Etching attributed to J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.

  • Perrissin, J. (Jean), 1536?-1611?
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[1570?]
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Quarante tableaux, ou Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les guerres, massacres, et troubles advenus en France en ces dernières années. Le tout recueilly selon le témoignage de ceux qui ont esté en personne, & qui les ont veues, lesquels sont pourtraits à la vérité.
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Île aux Bœufs, Loire: negotiations for the Pacification of Amboise in 1563 between the Queen Mother (regent for Charles IX), and the Huguenots, showing her receiving deputies at her tent. Etching attributed to J. Perrissin, ca. 1570. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Pacification or Edict of Amboise allowed Huguenot nobles to worship freely, but limited commoner worship to one town in each judicial district, but not Paris.

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[Geneva?] : [Jean de Laon?], [1570?]

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1 print : etching

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Pax inita in insula quae Boum dicitur ad Aureliam, 13 Martii 1563 Bears monogram: H

References note

A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, Paris 1835-1871, vol. VI, pp. 42-69; vol. XI (by G. Duplessis), pp. 256-281
A. Linzeler and J. Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle, Paris 1932-1935, 1938, vol. 2, pp. 37-53
Philip Benedict, Lawrence M. Bryant, and Kristen B. Neuschel, 'Graphic history: what readers knew and were taught in the Quarante tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel', French historical studies, 28 (2005), 175-229
Philip Benedict, Graphic history: the "Wars, massacres and troubles" of Tortorel and Perrissin, Geneva 2007

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Wellcome Collection 42601i

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