This book is dedicated to one of the most difficult problems in the history of the late Middle Ages - the civil wars in France in the 16th century. This problem in Soviet historiography has been little studied and is very important material for studying not only the specific history of France, but also the problems of the formation and development of European absolutism, the specifics of the class struggle in the conditions of reformation and counter-reformation in the 16th century, the peculiarities of the social struggle in France XVI century, finally, the specifics of the manifestation of reformation in this region and the development of the ideology of this period.