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    François Ravaillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁavajak]; 1578 – 27 May 1610) was a French Catholic who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610. Ravaillac was...
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    (1963). François Ravaillac, another French regicide executed in the same manner and location Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Damiens, Robert François" . Encyclopædia...
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    Succession. May 14 – King Henry IV of France is assassinated in Paris by François Ravaillac, a French Catholic activist who resents the Protestant monarch's decision...
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    Châtel in December 1594. Henry was killed in Paris on 14 May 1610 by François Ravaillac, a Catholic zealot who stabbed him while his coach was stopped on...
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  • the murder is burnt the regicide is dismembered alive In both the François Ravaillac and the Damiens cases, court papers refer to the offenders as a patricide...
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    the grève, including the gruesome deaths of the assassins François Ravaillac and Robert-François Damiens, as well as the bandit-rebel Guy Éder de La Fontenelle...
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    Henry IV of France (Henri IV) was assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac. number 92: 15 January 1622, the playwright known as Molière was born...
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    with the executions of François Ravaillac in 1610, Michał Piekarski in 1620 and Robert-François Damiens in 1757. Ravaillac's extended torture and execution...
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    the King. The very next day (14 May), Henry IV was assassinated by François Ravaillac - which immediately raised suspicions of a conspiracy. Within hours...
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    Succession. May 14 – King Henry IV of France is assassinated in Paris by François Ravaillac, a French Catholic activist who resents the Protestant monarch's decision...
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