The Newberry Library (Venue Partner)
60 W Walton St
312.943.9090
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Newberry Library
- When
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Saturday May 8, 2010 (11am–noon)
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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.
- Price
In a lecture to mark the opening of a small exhibition on Henri IV, which he curated, David Buisseret will explore this lively and vigorous monarch's remarkable reign and how it laid the foundations of France's grand siècle of the seventeenth century. Buisseret, the historian and former director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography will explain Henri's international politics, self-fashioning in the arts (including his patronage of new novelists), dangerous liaisons with various mistresses, and problems with the moneyed classes. A question and answer period will follow the talk.
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
