Ebook: Projet d'éloquence royale

The royal lecture given by historian Bishop Amyot to King Henri III of France at the time of the king's struggle against the Reformation. Founding rhetoric of the Académie du Palais, a forerunner of the Académie française. Put also in the context of the creation of the Order of the Holy Spirit, the monarchy first order of chivalry. King Henri III was nicknamed "chrysostomos", an orator "with a golden tongue".