See also:JEAN DE See also:POLTROT (c. 1537–1563)
, sieur de See also:Mere or See also:Mercy, a nobleman of See also:Angoumois, who murdered See also:Francis, See also:duke of See also:Guise
.
He had lived some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Spain, and his knowledge of See also:Spanish, together with his swarthy complexion, which earned him the See also:nickname of the " Espagnolet," procured him employment as a See also:spy in the See also:wars against Spain
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Becoming a fanatical Huguenot, he determined to kill the duke of Guise, and gained See also:admission as a deserter to the See also:camp of the Catholics who were besieging See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans
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In the evening of the 18th of See also:February 1563 he hid by the See also:side of a road along which he knew the duke would pass, fired a See also:pistol at him, and fled
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But he was captured the next See also:day, and was tried, tortured several times, and sentenced to be See also:drawn and quartered
.
On the 18th of See also:March 1563 he underwent a frightful See also:punishment
.
The horses not being able to See also:drag off his limbs, he was hacked to pieces with cutlasses
.
He had made several contradictory declarations regarding the complicity of See also:Coligny
.
The See also:admiral protested emphatically against the See also:accusation, which appears to have had no See also:foundation
.
See Memoires du See also:prince de See also:Conde (See also:London, 1743) ; T
.
A
.
D'See also:Aubigne, Histoire universelle (ed. by de See also:Ruble, See also:Soc. de l'histoire de See also:France, 1886) ; A. de Ruble, L'Assassinat du duc See also:Francois de See also:Lorraine (See also:Paris, 1897)
.
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