400 years ago, Henry IV was assassinated by Ravaillac! A great king disappeared, one of the chief was the spirit of tolerance! Tolerance, as this feature singularly lacking nowadays, in human relationships!
May 14, 1610, Ironworks (now 1st district - between Chatelet and the Forum des Halles), it is almost 15 hours. The crowd hampers the progress of a coach carrying gentlemen and King Henry IV. In the confusion, a bearded man climbed onto one of the wheels of the vehicle.
May 14, 1610, Ironworks (now 1st district - between Chatelet and the Forum des Halles), it is almost 15 hours. The crowd hampers the progress of a coach carrying gentlemen and King Henry IV. In the confusion, a bearded man climbed onto one of the wheels of the vehicle.
Royal offered back to him: he pressed a knife twice. The king is dead, Ravaillac, regicide, will be quartered in Place de Greve (the current site of City Hall) a few days later.
Henri IV (reigned 21 years) crosses the death May 14, 1610, Ironworks in Paris (1st district).. There are days like this that mark the history ... Ordinary days that turn into landmarks. On May 14, 1610, 400 years ago, is a historic date. Francois Ravaillac, chap 32, murdered in cold blood "good King Henry" in crowded artery (Ironworks) from the capital, before hundreds of witnesses.
Henri IV (reigned 21 years) crosses the death May 14, 1610, Ironworks in Paris (1st district).. There are days like this that mark the history ... Ordinary days that turn into landmarks. On May 14, 1610, 400 years ago, is a historic date. Francois Ravaillac, chap 32, murdered in cold blood "good King Henry" in crowded artery (Ironworks) from the capital, before hundreds of witnesses.
Why this gesture? Columnists, relatives of the monarch, reminiscent of a plot first English or religious (remember the conversion to Catholicism of Henry).
For many, the murderer did not act alone. It would be the envoy of a Catholic group alarmed by this king too conciliatory with the Protestants. At the end of the trial and the quartering of the tortured (late May 1610), he finally acknowledged that man has committed his act in solitude. He stated (in his prison cell at the Conciergerie) have been tempted by visions of hell after. He will never give the slightest clue about any complicités.Stèle always visible at the site of the murder. Henry IV was buried on 1 July 1610 in Saint-Denis Basilica. Marie de Medicis took over the reins of the kingdom, Louis XIII is still a child
Stephane Huet for the District of Mennecy. 
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