Mention of the birth of Henri IV (Registre des Établissements de Béarn, volume V, f° 220, manuscript), Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques (côte: C. 682).
View of Nérondes, Loire, birthplace of Pierre Cotton, drawing by Étienne Martellange, 1610 , Loire, birthplace of Pierre Cotton, drawing by Étienne Martellange, 1610
"Declaration of the most noteworthy sections and sites of the present portrait of the city of Bordeaux" by Élie Vinet, 1565, Bibliothèque nationale de France, RES 4-LK7-1112 A
Rebus about the hardships of France, engraving by Jacques de la Carrière, 1592. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des estampes et de la photographie, inv. Qb 1 1592
The village and château of Montmélian, in Topographie françoise, ou Représentations de plusieurs villes, bourgs, plans, chasteaux, maisons de plaisance, ruines et vestiges d'antiquitez du royaume de France / dessignez par defunct Claude Chastillon et autres, et mis en lumière par Jean Boisseau,... – Paris, Boisseau, 1648. Département des imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, RES L 15-7
The holdings of Henri IV before his accession to the throne. Source: Henri IV. Le règne de la tolérance, by Jean-Paul Desprat and Jacques Thibau. Paris, Gallimard (Découverte Histoire).
The map legend is : Navarre annexed by Spain in 1512 ; Legacy of the House of Albret; France in 1612
Principatus Benearnia / The principality of Béarn, colour engraving by Evert Symons and Hamers, engravers, ca. 1630, AD des Pyrénées Atlantiques, 1 F I ½
Edict of union of the former domain of the king with the crown. Copy in the registry of the Domain of Navarre united with the crown, 1609, handwritten register, parchment cover
The coats of arms of France and Navarre. Atelier de Mathieu Jacquet. Sculpture in white marble, 17th century. Musée national du château de Fontainebleau
Henri among the peasants (Job and L. Bordier), A. Hermant, Le Bon roy Henry, Tours, 1894, cat. no. 426u, Bibliothèque Municipale de Pau, fonds Réserve (reprint)
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