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Henry III (of France)
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Henry III (1551-1589)

King of France from 1574. He fought both the Huguenots (headed by his successor, Henry of Navarre) and the Catholic League (headed by the third Duke of Guise). Guise expelled Henry from Paris in 1588 but was assassinated. Henry allied with the Huguenots under Henry of Navarre to besiege the city, but was assassinated by a monk.



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A number of items are here in English for the first time, among them selections from Sperone Speroni's Dialogia della rettorica (1546), Jacques Amyot Projet de l'eloquence royale (1570-80), composed for Henry III of France, and Nicholas Caussin's De eloquentia sacra et humana, whose third edition (1631) amounted to more than a thousand pages.
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