RECORDING THE WARS OF RELIGION: THE 'DROLLERIES OF THE LEAGUE' FROM EPHEMERAL PRINT TO SCRAPBOOK HISTORY.

This essay discusses diarist and collector Pierre de Estoile of Paris, France, focusing on how his collecting activities of ephemeral print and print culture of the French Wars of Religion exemplified record keeping in the early modern period. He created a scrapbook he entitled "Drolleries of the League" which featured printed works created between the 1585 treaty of Péronne until the 1598 Edict of Nantes, which declared that all records of the wars should be destroyed and erased.