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JACQUES CLEMENT (1567-1589)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT (1567-1589)  , murderer of the See also:French See also:king See also:Henry III., was See also:born at Sorbon in the See also:Ardennes, and became a Dominican See also:friar . See also:Civil See also:war was raging in See also:France, and See also:Clement became an ardent See also:partisan of the See also:League; his mind appears to have become unhinged by religious fanaticism, and he talked of exterminating the heretics, and formed a See also:plan to kill Henry III . His project was encouraged by some of the heads of the League; he was assured of temporal rewards if he succeeded, and of eternal See also:bliss if he failed . Having obtained letters for the king, he See also:left See also:Paris on the 31st of See also:July 1589, and reached St See also:Cloud, the headquarters of Henry, who was besieging Paris . On the following See also:day he was admitted to the royal presence, and presenting his letters he told the king that he had an important and confidential See also:message to deliver . The attend-ants then withdrew, and while Henry was See also:reading the letters Clement mortally wounded him with a See also:dagger which had been concealed beneath his cloak . The See also:assassin was at once killed by the attendants who rushed in, and Henry died See also:early on thefollowing day . Clement's See also:body was afterwards quartered and burned . This See also:deed, however, was viewed with far different feelings in Paris and by the partisans of the League, the murderer being regarded as a See also:martyr and extolled by See also:Pope See also:Sixtus V., while even his See also:canonization was discussed . See E . See also:Lavisse, Histoire de France, tome vi . (Paris, 1904) .

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