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	François Ravaillac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		François Ravaillac (1578 – May 27, 1610) was the killer of Henry IV of France.
		He was of undistinguished origins and began life as a servant, but later became a school teacher.
		he was scalded with burning sulphur, molten lead and boiling oil and resin, his flesh then being torn by pincers." His parents were forced into exile and the rest of his family was ordered to never use the name Ravaillac.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravaillac (336 words)

	Signs of the Times - Nudity Row at Top Paris School
		The cover of the quarterly magazine Ravaillac showed five students from the Henri IV lycee naked except for a piece of removable tape over their genitals.
		The magazine's name is itself somewhat impertinent - Ravaillac was the assassin who killed the early 17th century French ruler the school is named after.
		Ravaillac is among 200 publications that have membership with J-Presse an association that protects the rights of student publications.
	www.loper.org /~george/trends/2002/Apr/31.html (406 words)

	The Hotel de Ville And The Place de Greve
		It was on this square that Ravaillac was put to horrible tortures in the hope that he would reveal the accomplices he did not have.
		It was Ravaillac's grand illusion that Henry IV was going to turn the country over to the Protestants when all Henry IV wanted was to have all of his subjects live in peace.
		Ravaillac's final ordeal, or what was left of him, was to have his four limbs tied to four horses and torn asunder.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles03/paris19.shtml (1983 words)

	Henry IV: Biography of Henry IV
		The mainspring of these improvements however, was the reorganization of the finances under Sully, who, in the course of ten years, reduced the national debt from 330 millions to 50 millions of livrea although arrears of taxes to the amount of 20 millions were remitted during that period.
		Nineteen times before attempts had been made on his life, most of which had been traced to the agency of the papal and imperial courts, and hence the people in their grief and consternation, laid Ravaillac's crime to the charge of the same influences.
		The grief of the Parisians was well nigh delirious, and in their fury they wreaked horrible vengence on the murderer, who, however, had been a mere tool in the hands of the Jesuits, Henry's implacable foes, notwithstanding the many concessions which he had made to that order.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/H/HenryIV.html (548 words)

	FRANCOIS RAVAILLAC - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCOIS RAVAILLAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was of humble origin and began life as a valet de chambre, but afterwards became a lawyer and also teacher of a school.
		Sentence of death was carried out on the 27th of May following.
		See Jules Loiseleur, Ravaillac et ses complices (1873), and E. Lavisse, Histoire de France, tome vi.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAVAILLAC_FRANCOIS.htm (186 words)

	Henri IV
		At that point a tall, young, red haired Frenchman named Francois Ravaillac, a native of Angoulême, jumped upon the wheelhub of the coach, and leaning through the open window swiftly stabbed the king twice in his lift side.
		The fanatical Ravaillac, unmarried and unemployed, had succeeded quite by accident in performing this terrible deed which several others before him had tried to perpetrate but failed to complete, such as the famous attempt in December, 1594 when a young law student named Jean Chastel tried to stab Henry IV in the hôtel de Schomberg.
		Ravaillac was condemned as a regicide by the Parlement de Paris.
	www.bama.ua.edu /%7Egderoche/henriiv/intro.htm (6879 words)

	1610 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		May 13-14 – Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France
		May 27 - Ravaillac is executed by pulling him apart in the Place de Grève
		May 27 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (born 1578)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1610 (538 words)

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		In vain did she receive communications involving individuals who were openly named; she discouraged every report; and although among these the Duc d'Epernon made a conspicuous figure, she treated the accusation with indifference, and continued to display towards him an amount of confidence and favour to which he had never previously attained.
		On the 18th of the month the regicide Ravaillac was put upon his trial, during which he exhibited a stoical indifference, that filled his judges with astonishment.
		Far from seeking to evade the penalty of his crime, he admitted it with a calmness and composure perfectly unshaken; and on the 27th his sentence was pronounced and executed with such barbarity that we shall avoid the detail.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/1/6/0/11600/11600.txt (5594 words)

	Secret Anglo Man: Part the Eighth - BLUE MAG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They were given the itinerary for Otto Lobotobol for his upcoming weekend stay in Vienna, plus the first ever picture of the man. London gave Merrero-Deciccio the opportunity to use Ravaillac to bring down Lobotobol.
		Ravaillac passed him without a word and entered the Michaelerplatz.
		Although destroyed by the death of his mentor, he had the sense to reach into his diaper for his gun, just as he rose even with the window.
	www.bluemag.com /secret_anglo/08.html (4257 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Outrage as lycee pupils pose naked
		Their magazine Ravaillac is a new publication produced by the school's pupils and is named after Henri IV's assassin, Franois Ravaillac, who was executed in 1610.
		Ravaillac's 17-year-old editor, who gives his name only as Jonathan, admitted that the row had done wonders for the new magazine's circulation.
		Despite the headmaster's ban, the second issue with the nudes on its cover has sold 600 copies at ױ (61p) each - double the number of the pupil's first issue.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/07/wnude07.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/04/07/ixworld.html (522 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Nudity row at top Paris school
		A row has erupted at one of France's most prestigious high schools after a group of teenage pupils posed naked for the cover of the student newspaper.
		As a conservative measure, I forbid the distribution of this issue at Henri IV
		Next, they'll be stopping art education in school, there's no lack of nudes there
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1924000/1924494.stm (451 words)

	Assassination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Henri IV of France stabbed to death on the Rue de la Ferronnerie, Paris, by fanatic François Ravaillac.
		For punishment, Ravaillac was drawn and quartered thirteen days later.
		King Gustav III of Sweden shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a costume ball, Royal Opera, Stockholm.
	www.rotten.com /library/history/assassination (878 words)

	27 May History: This Date
		Déséquilibré, Ravaillac aurait agi pour le parti espagnol et autrichien qui craignait l'attaque des Pays-Bas.
		Dit a esté que ladite Cour a déclaré et déclare ledit Ravaillac dûment atteint et convaincu du crime de lèse Majecté divine et humaine, au premier chef, pour le très méchant, très abominable, et très détestable parricide, commis en la personne du feu Roi Henri IV de très bonne et louable mémoire.
		A fait et fait défenses à ses frères, soeurs, oncles et autres, porter ci_après ledit nom de Ravaillac, leur enjoint le changer en autre sur les mêmes peines.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4may/h4may27.html (13652 words)

	RAVAILLAC, FRANCOIS (1578—1610) - Online Information article about RAVAILLAC, FRANCOIS (1578—1610) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RAVAILLAC, FRANCOIS (1578—1610) - Online Information article about RAVAILLAC, FRANCOIS (1578—1610)
		See Jules Loiseleur, Ravaillac et ses complices (1873), and E. See also:
		French philosopher and archaeologist, was born at See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/RAVAILLAC_FRANCOIS_15781610_.html (682 words)

	François Ravaillac -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		François Ravaillac -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		François Ravaillac (1578 – May 27, 1610) was the killer of (additional info and facts about Henry IV of France) Henry IV of France.
		On May 27 he was taken to the (additional info and facts about Place de Grève) Place de Grève and there was tortured before being dispatched by being pulled apart by four horses.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/fran%e7ois_ravaillac.htm (361 words)

	The Madness of King George, Review by Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.
		In l6lO, Ravaillac, the assassin of Henri IV, was spread-eagled upon a great wheel.
		The royal executioner tore his flesh open with redhot pincers, poured motel lead into the wounds, and splintered his bones with an iron rod.
		The direness of Ravaillac's punishment was an index of how direly his crime was perceived.
	doctorgreenberg.net /madnessofgeorge.htm (1927 words)

	Eagum (The Netherlands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		To honour the king, several French housewives cooked nothing but "poule au pot" for their husband.
		His wife ran after him: "Ravaillac, come back and pleaaaaaase drop that knife!" but it was too late.
		Ravaillac was quartered (not heraldically but with the help of four horses) after having murdered Henri IV in Paris.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/nl-fr_ea.html (1112 words)

	Los Reyes Capetos - Enrique IV
		El rey era todo un galante con las mujeres teniendo por amantes a Gabriela d'Estrées y Enriqueta d'Entragues con quienes ha tenido numerosos bastardos quien por amor, el mismo monarca los ha legitimado.
		A la muerte del rey bajo el cuchillo asesino de Ravaillac en 1610, su memoria pasó a ser la más popular de todos los reyes de Francia.
		Lo que no hicieron los cuchillos de la San Bartolomé, lo hizo la navaja de Ravaillac cuando el rey estaba leyendo distraidamente unos asuntos del Estado sin tanta protección de su guardia.
	www.cscom.com.ar /ruy/capetos/enrique4.html (585 words)

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		Lawton, of the 15th Light Dragoons; David Hadfield, brother to the prisoner; Mary Gore, sister-in-law to the prisoner; Catharine Harrison and Elizabeth Roberts detailed different acts of insanity, particularly on the day previous to and on which he committed the crime for which he stood indicted.
		To close the scene of horror, four horses were fastened to the four quarters of his body, which were torn asunder.
		His parents were banished their country, never more to return, on pain of immediate death; and his whole kindred, nay, all individuals bearing the name, were ordered to renounce it, so that the name of Ravaillac should never more be heard of in France.
	www.exclassics.com /newgate/newgate3.txt (18102 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Ravaillac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Ravaillac; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Ravaillac (466 words)

	WAIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As mentioned in an earlier memo, the Jesuits have long been the target of accusations, most of them unfounded.
		When Henri IV of France was assassinated in 1610, the assassin, Ravaillac, was accused of having been influenced by the Jesuit Juan de Mariana, who had lectured in Paris.
		In the sixth chapter of De rege et rege institutione (1598), Mariana had justified killing tyrants.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/LatinAmerica/latinamer_jesuitguilty.html (324 words)

	Encyclopedia: FranÃ§ois Ravaillac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fran%c3%a7ois-Ravaillac (762 words)

	I.1. The Grand Hall Page 2
		Around the hall, along the lofty wall, between the doors, between the windows, between the pillars, the interminable row of all the kings of France, from Pharamond down: the lazy kings, with pendent arms and downcast eyes; the valiant and combative kings, with heads and arms raised boldly heavenward.
		It is true that it may be quite possible, in the first place, that Ravaillac had no accomplices; and in the second, that if he had any, they were in no way connected with the fire of 1618.
		Two other very plausible explanations exist: First, the great flaming star, a foot broad, and a cubit high, which fell from heaven, as every one knows, upon the law courts, after midnight on the seventh of March; second, Théophile's quatrain,--
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Hugo/Hunchback/HunchbackC2P2.htm (299 words)

	Henri IV (1553-1610) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After some hesitation, Henry finally decided on a military expedition to expel the imperial troops from Jülich, but whether he would have gone on to risk a new general war against the Habsburgs is unknown.
		He was assassinated in Paris on May 14, 1610, by a fanatical Roman Catholic named François Ravaillac.
		The first of the Bourbon kings of France, Henry IV brought unity and prosperity to the country after the ruinous 16th-century Wars of Religion.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Henri-IV/Henri-IV.html (2530 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3), by Julia Pardoe
		[20] François Ravaillac was a native of Angoulême, the son of a lawyer, and was about thirty-two years of age.
		He was a descendant through the female line of Poltrot de Méré, the assassin of the Due de Guise.
		In vain did she receive communications involving individuals who were openly named; she discouraged every report; and although among these the Duc d'Epernon made a conspicuous figure, she treated the accusation with indifference, and continued to display [pg 040] towards him an amount of confidence and favour to which he had never previously attained.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/11600/11600-h/11600-h.htm (5914 words)

	Messenger Walkthrough
		Listen to the Dictaphone to the Louvre; King Henri IV was murdered by Ravaillac and note special mention of a clockmaker that made a mysterious clock.
		The interrogator tells of their knowledge of the intrigue between Madame de Verneuil and Ravaillac.
		The descendant of Anselme tells Morgan about the suspicions abounding due to the recent murder of King Henri by Ravaillac.
	www.gameboomers.com /wtcheats/pcMm/messenger.html (6988 words)

	The Works of Voltaire, vol. 7 (1901): The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Of this sort of books there are about fifty thousand in Europe, and the labor still goes on like the secret for whitening the skin, flening the hair, and mixing up the universal remedy.
		I have always said that you were not far from the kingdom of heaven; but your time is not yet come.
		Melitus and Anitus are known because of you, as Ravaillac is known because of Henry IV.; but of Anitus I know only the name.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Voltaire0265/Works/0060-07_Bk.html (14760 words)

	Prosper Mérimée Les Cosaques d'Autrefois 1865 The Cossacks of Yore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		En 1610, les bouchers de Paris offrirent au Parlement d'écorcher Ravaillac, si soigneusement, qu'ils s'engageaient à le fair vivre trois jours.
		That men could be enraged enough to devise such a form of torture, it is indeed necessary to admit.
		But that, in a town taken by assault, they skinned 15,000 people, I declare this deed impossible, not on account of insufficient ferocity, but on account of the lack of patience of the stupidest among the savages.
	www.ukar.org /merime01.shtml (4567 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pre-1773 History of the Jesuits
		He now made great use of the Society, founded for it the great College of La Feche, encouraged its missions at home, in Normandy and Béarn, and the commencement of the foreign missions in Canada and the Levant.
		The Society immediately began to increase rapidly, and counted thirty-nine colleges, besides other houses, and 1135 religious before the king fell under Ravaillac's dagger (1610).
		This was made the occasion for new assaults by the Parlement, who availed themselves of Marianna's book, "De rege", to attack the Society as defenders of regicide.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14086a.htm (10210 words)

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