Queen Jezebel

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August 24th, 1572 - Madness seized Catholic Paris, The cobbles were stained with Huguenot blood. The carnival of butchery begun by the bell of saint-Germain l'Auxerrois raged unchecked. To her other crimes Catherina de Medici now added the infamy of St. Bartholomew's Eve. Worshipping no god save power she lived only to rule through her tainted offspring. None of her children - mad Charles, perverted Anjou (Henry III) a dandy who for a long time was assumed to have been homosexual, deformed Alencon, or the wanton Margot - trusted the Queen Mother. None lover her. And all France feared her