The Life of Theodore Agrippa d’Aubigné, Containing a Succinct Account of the Most Remarkable Occurrences During the Civil Wars f France in the Reigns of Charles IX. Henry III. Henry IV. and in the Minority of Lewis XIII.
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1772. First edition of Scott’s penultimate work, which celebrates d’Aubigné’s Protestant resistance against “combined Catholic conspiracy, absolutist court monarchy, and plebeian violence,” (Oxford DNB). Scott also addresses Voltaire’s assertions on the superiority of French culture, and “the new politics of patriotism, Protestantism, and.....