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Episode 63: Anticlimax

The Wars of Religion reaches its crescendo with a three-way struggle, and Catherine watches as her most beloved child makes a horrific and bloody mistake that would prove too much for her to bear.

Henri III inspects the corpse of Henri, Duke of Guise, in this early 19th century painting by Charles Durupt (date unknown). The painting lies where the murder of the Duke of Guise took place. Source: Chateau de Blois.
The grave monument of Catherine de’ Medici at Saint-Denis. Source: CDT93.

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