The Newberry Library (Venue Partner)
60 W Walton St
312.943.9090
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Newberry Library
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May 4, 2010 – July 15, 2010
Daily (8am–7pm)
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Directions: The Newberry Library is located at 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL, directly across from Chicago’s famed Washington Square Park and just a few blocks west of Michigan Avenue.
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Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks the anniversary of Henri’s death by showing some of the remarkable cultural and political accomplishments of this popular monarch’s reign. This display of material at the Newberry Library will include a facsimile of a letter to one of his mistresses, a beautifully illustrated manual of horsemanship used by Henri’s heir, and a treatise by the royal gardener, whom the King closely supervised. In political affairs, we will see a 1608 publication that marked the foundation of the French colony at Québec, on which Henri was very keen, and a contemporary pamphlet marking the end in 1598 of the war between France and Spain. His reign saw the emergence of very early novels and operas, as well as a flowering of poetry, as this exhibit will show.
