1574: Joseph Boniface de La Mole, La Reine Margot’s lover

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[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1574, nobleman Joseph Boniface de La Mole was beheaded in Paris for a supposed plot against the king.

As the year would imply, La Mole was a casualty of France’s decades-long Wars of Religion.

Two years prior, in an attempt to cement an unsteady peace, the king’s sister Marguerite de Valois had been married off to the Protestant Henri of Navarre. As Paris teemed with Huguenots in town to celebrate the nuptials, the Catholic party sprang the infamous St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

As if things weren’t awkward enough with the in-laws, Henri was now made to live at the royal court, feigning conversion to Catholicism. His relationship with Marguerite went off to a rocky start; both took other lovers.

Joseph Boniface de La Mole (English Wikipedia entry | French) was one of Marguerite’s. You’ll find this adulterous couple steaming up the screen in the 1994 film La Reine Margot, which is based on a Dumas novel of the same title.

[CheshireTheCat]

I'm turning in early tonight and sleeping late, so this is a few hours early for April 30th.

I have to rest up for the big stay-at-home lift.

The movie referenced was actually pretty decent.

[Tennessee Nana]

So did he have a bonny did he have a mole ???

[Tennessee Nana]

Whoops

Did he have a bonny face or did he have a mole ???

[Cicero]

[Okeydoker]

Very interesting. This should be a daily posting

[A_perfect_lady]

You’ll find this adulterous couple steaming up the screen in the 1994 film La Reine Margot,

Oh, that was a gooood movie. Isabelle Adjani was stunning, and I don't use that word often.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So she touched his Boniface.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks CheshireTheCat.

[BenLurkin]

[kalee]

That is an excellent movie.