Journal De Jean Héroard - Tome 1sur L'enfance Et La Jeunesse De Louis XIII (1601-1610)

In September 1601, a physician named Jean Héroard held the newborn Dauphin in his arms and began writing. What he recorded over the next nine years would become one of history's most intimate portraits of royal childhood: a document unlike any biography or chronicle. Héroard logged everything. The infant's first teeth and fevers. His screaming fits and sudden terrors. The uneasy truce between his father Henri IV, the warrior king, and his ambitious Italian mother Marie de Médici. The tutors, the falconers, the political pressures already gathering around a boy not yet old enough to walk. This is history from inside the nursery, not the throne room. Héroard was no flatterer; he noted the child's anxieties, his stubbornness, his complex relationship with power. Here Louis XIII becomes not a statue on a pedestal but a real child being shaped into a king. For anyone fascinated by how power begins, how dynasties are forged, or simply how the mighty lived behind closed doors, this volume cracks open four centuries of silence.