Montagne and the Upheavals of France

Montagne was one of the so-called Polyteic who worked to find a pragmatic peace between Protestants and Catholics. He was imprisoned in 1588 after choosing to accompany King Henry III in Flight from Paris. The essays are as much a response to the wars of religion as more explicit reactions like the Huguenot political treatises or works on consolation by Duvard and Lipsius.