AUGUST 22ND 1572 … The Attempted Assassination of Admiral Coligny. Basking in his King&rs
AUGUST 22ND 1572 … The Attempted Assassination of Admiral Coligny. Basking in his King’s favor (much to a jealous Catherine de Médicis’ displeasure) Coligny was returning to his residence at the rue de Béthisy after visiting with Charles IX when an assassin fired at him breaking his arm and severely wounding but not killing the Admiral. The bullet that struck him was from an Arquebus and was fired from the first floor of a house in the cloisters of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois.What saved the Admiral from more serious harm was the fact that he bent to adjust his shoe at the precise moment of the shot.Coligny’s companions found the gun (smoking) but the shooter was gone—galloped off through the Porte Saint-Antoine on a horse he had ready behind the house. One of these same companions immediately rode to the Louvre to tell the King.Was the jealous Queen Mother behind this crime? Read my novel MEDICIS DAUGHTER for my take on this delicate question. -- source link
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