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The massacre of St. Bartholomew

Note 559 — Chapter XI · THE MARRIAGE AND THE PLOT. [August, 1572.]

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Some writers have supposed that through her daughter Margaret, Catherine discovered a scheme concerted between Charles and Coligny to banish both her and the Guises from court; and that a common danger made her combine with Duke Henry to crush the Huguenots, trusting to find the means afterward of counterbalancing the house of Lorraine.

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