{"id":254,"date":"2010-05-31T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress-alex2\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:17:17","slug":"prix-guizot-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/the-calvados-general-councils-guizot-prize\/prix-guizot-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2008 Fran\u00e7ois Guizot Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The eighth Guizot Prize awarded by the Calvados County Council has been awarded to Arlette Jouanna<\/strong>, professor emeritus at the University of Montpellier, specialising in the history of the 16th century.e<\/sup> century and the Wars of Religion, for his book :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saint Bartholomew's Day, the mysteries of a state crime<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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On 18 August 1572, Paris celebrated the wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, an event that was to seal the reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants. Six days later, Huguenot leaders were executed on the orders of the Royal Council. Then Catholic gangs massacred thousands of \u00abthose of the religion\u00bb - men, women, the elderly, infants...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[...] This tragedy, experienced as an unprecedented rupture, gave rise to an abundance of reflection on the foundations of power, the limits of authority, the legitimacy of disobedience; on the danger also posed by religious divisions to the traditions of the kingdom. But this effort at political restoration came up against the over-sacralisation of the king, which paved the way for the absolutism of the Bourbons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Edition Gallimard<\/td><\/tr>
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2007<\/td><\/tr>
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2070771024<\/td><\/tr>
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Speech by Jean-Claude Casanova, Chairman of the Jury.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Speech by Anne d'Ornano, President of the Calvados County Council.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Speech by Arlette Jouanna, winner of the Prix Guizot-Calvados.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Speech by Catherine Coste, President of the Fran\u00e7ois Guizot Association.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Speech by Nicolas Boissonnas, President of the Val-Richer civil society.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Le huiti\u00e8me prix Guizot du Conseil g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Calvados a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cern\u00e9 \u00e0 Arlette Jouanna, professeur \u00e9m\u00e9rite \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Montpellier, sp\u00e9cialiste de l\u2019histoire du XVIe si\u00e8cle fran\u00e7ais et des guerres de Religion, pour son ouvrage : La Saint-Barth\u00e9lemy, les myst\u00e8res d\u2019un crime d\u2019\u00e9tat Le 18 ao\u00fbt 1572, Paris c\u00e9l\u00e8bre avec faste le mariage de Marguerite de […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903,"parent":9205,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-254","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions\/12407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}