by François Bayrou · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080668219
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«Henri IV, le roi libre» is the biography of Henry IV of France by François Bayrou, published by Flammarion in paperback (534 pages, in French).
Bayrou narrates the life of Henry IV during the French Wars of Religion: childhood between a Protestant mother and a Catholic father, marriage to Margaret of France on the eve of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, and conquest of the throne. The book analyses the economic, social and political France of the era and the national reconciliation promoted by the monarch.
It belongs to Flammarion's Grandes Biographies collection and includes bibliographical references (pp. 523-531).
Aimed at readers of historical biographies and 16th-century French history.
François René Jean Bayrou is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from December 2024 to September 2025. He has presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004 and the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since 2007. A centrist, he was a candidate in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 presidential elections.
