The Mysteries of a Crime of State
by
Arlette Jouanna
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France's Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution, on the orders of the king's council, of the Protestant leaders unleashed a vast...