ORIGINS (of 58 front. J.-C. with 887)
Roman period
Mérovingiens
Carolingians
FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483)
Any power of Feudality
Feudal royalty
Decline of Feudality
One Hundred Years old war
Ruin Feudality
MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789)
Wars of Italy
Wars against the house of Austria
Wars of religion
Apogee of monarchical France
Decline of monarchy
THE REVOLUTION
Ruin Ancien Régime
The Republic
Empire
Assassination of the duke of Own way. Thursday December 22, 1588, the duke of Own way, by sitting down at table to dine, found under its towel a ticket in which one informed it that the king wanted to make it assassinate: "it would not dare" says it contemptuously, and the next morning it went to the council, like habit; but at the time when it raised the velvet door which closed the cabinet of the king, two men threw themselves on him with the improvist, a third seizes the legs to him; others ran in mass: "Mercy" exclaimed the duke, but it was bored de.toutes.parts before to have been able to fire its sword, and it fell while râlant to the foot from the bed from the king. Henri III left at once the close room, approached the wide body and a kick to the face gave him, while saying: "Now I am a king de France". Henri de Guise, who still breathed, pushed a choked cry and returned the heart. Died of Catherine de Médicis. When Henri III saw his died enemy, it went down in his mother, reserve with the bed by the drop: it had not prevented it its intentions against the duke of Own way, and Catherine, whose apartment was located below that of the king, wondered while trembling what had just occurred. The disaster news struck it stupor; forced to recognize itself in her son, it felt too criminal to reproach him a crime; overpowered by the old age and the disease, tormented of anguish and remorse, forsaken and which cursed, she died in prey with despair, twelve days only after the duke of Own way (January 5, 1589). Assassination of Henri III - Died of Jacques Clement. A monk, named Jacques Clement, had sworn himself to avenge the duke for Own way: when it saw Henri III linking himself with the Protestants to besiege Paris, it went to Saint-Cloud, was presented at Henri III like carrier of an important news, and at the time when the king opened the letter, it plunged a knife in the belly to him. To the cries of the king, the guards ran and massacred the assassin on the place (August 1). Died of Henri III. Henri III, feeling that his wound was mortal, wanted to designate his successor: "My brother, says it to Henri Bourbon, you are legitimates it heir to my crown, but make you catholic, if you want to reign on France; "then addressing itself to the lords who surrounded it: "I request from you, says it, I order to you, to recognize after my death my brother that here, and to lend oath my involved to him". All swore, when Henri had expired, around two hours of the morning, Henri de Bourbon became Henri IV. |
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Henri III, who moves back in front of the opened fight, but which seeks to be avenged for Henri de Guise, pretends to reconcile himself with him, names it généralissime armies of the kingdom, and promises to him to destroy the heresy, then it attracts it in Blois and made there assassinate (1588). Become for the members of a league a public enemy, threatened to be taken between them and the Protestants, it is tiny room to be combined with Henri de Bourbon, and it joint with him to besiege Paris, but it is assassinated in its turn (1589). The branch of Valois finishes with him, and its legitimate heir is being the chief of the Protestants, Henri de Bourbon, who will be called Henri IV. |
Assassination of the duke… Assassination of Henri III… |
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