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The assassination of Henry III — On 1 August 1589, Jacques Clément stabbed the king
A Leaguer friar obtained audience at the royal camp and struck the king with a dagger. The wounded man named his Protestant cousin as heir and died the next day: the house of Valois was extinguished, and that of Bourbon began. (Editorial synthesis)
The assassination of Henry III took place on 1 August 1589. (source: Larousse and Encyclopædia Universalis)
The assassination of Henry III took place in Saint-Cloud. (source: Larousse)
The assassination of Henry III ended in the death of the last Valois, who named Henri de Bourbon, King of Navarre, as his heir. (source: Larousse)
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