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Episode 59: Eve of an Atrocity

Catherine seems to have finally ended the religious civil war, a lasting peace that would be sealed with the marriage of her glamorous daughter Margot and the Protestant great hope Henri de Bourbon. But no one saw the storm that was coming…

Hermann Vogel, “The Marriage of Henri III of Navarre and Marguerite of Valois” (1907). Source: Private collection.
A sketch of Marguerite or Margot de Valois by François Clouet (c. 1572). Source:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
King Henri III of Navarre as a young man (c. 1575) by an anonymous painter. Source: Chateau de Pau.
An anonymous portrait of Duke Henri I of Guise as a young man (c. 1567). Source: Palace of Versailles.

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