Place des Vosges
Caylus - ©Austrian National Library (ÖNB) • Henri III - ©The British Library / Public domain
King Henri III didn’t look very well, this morning of May 1578, while he was crossing the icy nave of Saint-Louis church in Le Marais district. He had hollow cheeks, glazed eyes. He wept all night...
A stake stuck in the eye? King Henri II's dreadful death throes in the Tournelles
Author: Vinaigrette
The Tournelles tournament - ©Wellcome Images / CC-BY
In 1388, Pierre d'Orgemont, chancellor of France, raised a big and beautiful house to the north of the current square, with a garden: the hôtel des Tournelles. Here, king of France Henri II died...
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