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Howel, in his ''Familiar Letters, remarks'': “A fatal thing it is that France should have three of her kings come to such violent deaths in so short a time; Henry II., running at tilt, was killed by a splinter of a lance that pierced his eye; Henry III., not long after, was killed by a young friar, who, instead of a letter which he pretended to have for him, pulled out of his long sleeve a knife, and thrusting it into the king’s abdomen, so dispatch him; but that regicide was hack to pieces in the place by the nobles. The same destiny attended this king (Henry IV.) by Ravaillac, which is now become a common name of reproach and infamy in France.”

Howel, in his ''Familiar Letters, remarks'': “A fatal thing it is that France should have three of her kings come to such violent deaths in so short a time; Henry II., running at tilt, was killed by a splinter of a lance that pierced his eye; Henry III., not long after, was killed by a young friar, who, instead of a letter which he pretended to have for him, pulled out of his long sleeve a knife, and thrusting it into the king’s abdomen, so dispatch him; but that regicide was hack to pieces in the place by the nobles. The same destiny attended this king (Henry IV.) by Ravaillac, which is now become a common name of reproach and infamy in France.”

 

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