Portrait of Henry of Lorraine (1550-1588) 3rd Duc de Guise. French soldier and statesman. One of the instigators of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which began on 24 August 1572 and resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholic mobs. He founded the French Catholic League in 1576. History of Philip II of Spain. Old engraving published in Historia de Felipe II by H. Forneron, in 1884

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