Dr. Estelle Paranque
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first heard Feb 2025
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely. So this massacre is that she wants to bring peace to France and she's going to give her daughter, her third daughter, Margaret... to Henry of Navarre, who's a Protestant. And the wedding is going to happen in Paris, and they're going to invite all the Protestants. So all Protestants and Catholics are in Paris to celebrate the wedding. And so far, so good.
But the night of 23rd, 24th of August.
Thank you, Greg. The Guises have an opportunity to avenge their father's death. In 1563.
He was assassinated in 1563 by Admiral de Coligny. He's going to ask for refuge to Catherine de Medici, who's going to grant it. But then what happened next is that the Guises have lots and lots of support. They even have their own private armies. And they start killing. It's the massacre of Protestants, thousands and thousands. And it doesn't stop in Paris. It goes to Rouen.
It goes to different cities. And Catherine is blamed for it. People said Catherine started it. Catherine is the one who organized it, who plotted it, when Catherine is the one who actually opened the doors of her house with Charles, her son, to save as many Protestants as possible, including Sir Francis Worsingham, the English ambassador of Elizabeth I.
Always a spare.
The spare for the spare. Francis and Charles are both dead.
And she has another one. So she's like, it's OK.
Henri III of France. He was elected king of Poland. And when Charles died, he had to smuggle out of Poland to go back to the French crown, which was awful because... Can you imagine being ditched by your king? No, but it was a massive diplomatic problem here because he was like, oh my... Catherine was like... Come back here. And he's like, they're not going to be happy.
I'd just be a king for a year. Is that like when you've applied for a new job and not told your... And now you have a better opportunity that you were not supposed to have. Right? It's like France is better, right? Sorry, guys. But that's how they felt at that time. So he had to hide. He went down a window and he roared at night. And it's just such a fascinating story.
First of all, he was absolutely... Gorgeous. I think that helps. I mean, people are like, oh, yeah, you don't know when your kid is friendly. A Polish friend of mine told me that he's gorgeous.
They still talk about it.
He's dashing. He's absolutely dashing. Even Elizabeth I. He's dashing off.
What's very interesting is that there were rumors that he was a homosexual. He slept with his mignon, his favorite, with his men. There is no evidence whatsoever of this. If at all, it's the contrary. And I'm going to tell you two reasons why there are these rumors about him. And why they're not true. The first one is he had lots of mistresses.
But because it's the only love story we're going to have here. He loved his wife. It was a love match. He chose Louise de Lorraine Vaudemont, who was a guise. And her allegiance is going to go to him, not her family. And then you have all this. I love that Sharpie is taking notes.
And then the reason why as well, I know for sure that he didn't have any things with his mignon is because I've read hundreds, if not thousands of his letters. And he described his poo in his letters. So if he had had sex with one of his men, he would have said, oh, my God, having you inside me last night was so. Amazing. He never did. He never did. All he did is like, I kiss your hands and feet.
And it's just a mark of allegiance. People say because he said that to a man, I kiss your hand and feet. It's because he had sex with him. But his mother did the same. She wrote to him, I kiss your hand and feet. It was actually a mark of allegiance, a total loyalty.
What did he say about his poo? It was green and smelly. And he reported that to his... I'm sorry, guys. He reported that to his advisor. Can you imagine the Privy Councillor receiving the letter? My king had a green poo today and it was very smelly.
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