Posted on 08/31/2022 3:14:37 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1593, a would-be assassin of France’s King Henri IV was broken on the wheel.
An Orleans boatman turned Catholic League soldier in France’s internecine Catholic-Huguenot wars, he was among the numerous Catholics who looked askance at victorious Huguenot Henri IV‘s expeditious conversion to Catholicism.
In the months while Henri IV still held Paris under siege, the Jesuit father Jacques Commolet had called for his assassination from the pulpit. The Bourbon’s (nominal) switch to Catholicism with the words “Paris is worth a mass” had not persuaded hard-core Catholic partisans of the king’s sincerity.
Henri was a practical guy. And with civil slaughter afoot for most of the late 16th century, he took a dim view to loose talk about assassinations, especially his.
The safety of the king’s person was a paramount consideration of magistrates during this period. Thirty years of political assassinations during which the rule of law proved largely ineffective in bringing the guilty to justice had ultimately left a fundamental law of France, the inviolability of the king’s person, subverted. Magistrates … focused their attention on re-establishing the enforcement of this law …..
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Only a lover of satan could do, choosr, this punishment to an assasin.
Pierre? Where have i heard that name? Oh the White House spokesperson.
He got of easy compared to the Catholic who did manage to kill Henri IV. Four miserable days between arrest and being rent asunder.
http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/05/27/1610-francois-ravaillac-henri-iv-franc/
They new how to party/s
Geez…
Pour encourager les autres.
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