The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Jacques-Auguste de Thou: Taking off the Toga
"Taking off the Toga" was written in the winter of 2010-2011. Its several parts that center on Jacques-Auguste de Thou, serve as a preface to "La Divinité (ou la non-Divinité) du roi Henri IV," which has been submitted as a chapter in a volume of mélanges that will honor Professor Gérard Sabatier of the University of Grenoble.
Dedicated to Nancy Roelker
Samuel Kinser
Alfred Soman
Je reconnois que le temps auquel j'ay escrit, et ma liberté naturelle, me peuvent avoir quelquefois emporté; mais sans haine, dont j'appelle Dieu à tesmoin, et moins avec mespris de ce que je dis venerer. Vous sçavez que je n'ay jamais vacillé en la Religion de mes Peres, c'est à dire, en la Catholique, en laquelle je veux vivre et mourir: mais j'ay parlé librement de ceux qui se servent de la Religion pour les faire une Cape à l'Espagnole, et couvrir leur ambition.
To Jacques du Perron, August 22, 1607, History, London Latin ed. of 1733, VII pt. 1, p. 29
Jacobo Augusto Thuano Christophori filio, in regni conciliis assessori; amplissimi senatus praesidi. ... Historiarum scriptori, quo ipsae passim loquuntur celeberrimo; Christianae pietatis antiquae retinentissimo.
Epitaph, quoted in London Latin ed. of 1733, VII, pt. 7, p. 28
These Studies are divided into three parts. The second section is subdivided into three sections.
I - Taking off the Toga, Reflections
II A - Searching for Legal
Perspectives in de Thou's dedication to Henry IV
II B - Searching for Legal
Perspectives in de Thou's History, books I-LXIV
II
C - Hesitant findings
III - Brief bibliography