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HENRY III

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HENRY III
(1551 - 1589) King of France who aided Catherine de Medicis in planning the Massacre of St. Bartholemew, sided under duress with the Huguenots in their conflicts with the Catholics, after his mother's death he was murdered by the monk Jacques Clement, ending the Valois male line. D.S. "Henry" as "King of France and Poland", 1p. oblong folio, Paris, 1582, in French. Untranslated. Faults include very light but legible signature with cancelation cut traversing it, two small holes, only one affecting three letters of text, cut-canceled at lower-right as usual. Sold as-is, should be viewed.