St Cloud Ile-de-France France
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Henry III, allied with Navarre, advances on Paris in 1589 at the head of an army.
He lodges with his army on August 1, 1589, at Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris.
Jacques Clément, a young Dominican friar, who has become fanatically religious and an ardent partisan of the Catholic League, views Protestantism as heresy, and has talked of exterminating the Huguenots and formed a plan to kill the king.
His project is encouraged by some of the heads of the League, in particular Catherine de Guise, the Duchess Montpensier.
He is assured of temporal rewards if he succeeds and of eternal bliss if he fails.
Granted access to deliver important documents to the King, the monk gives the King a bundle of papers and states that he has a secret message to deliver.
The King signals for his attendants to step back for privacy, and Clément whispers in his ear while plunging a knife into his abdomen.
Clément is killed on the spot by the guards; his body will later be quartered and burned.
The King's wound does not at first appear fatal, but he enjoins all the officers around him, in the event that he does not survive, to be loyal to Henry of Navarre as their new king.
Henry III dies the following morning on the day that he was to have launched his assault to retake Paris.
Henry of Navarre proclaims himself by birthright as King Henry IV of France.
Chaos sweeps the attacking army, most of it quickly melting away as many of the late King's troops refuse to support a Protestant; the proposed attack on Paris is postponed.
Pierre Chicaneau had begun the manufacture of Saint-Cloud porcelain, a soft-paste porcelain made in the town of Saint-Cloud, France, from the last quarter of the seventeenth century, which passes by marriage to the family of Henri Trou in about 1722.
Much of the porcelain, which is yellowish or creamy off-white in tone, is influenced by blanc de chine, or late Ming Chinese white porcelain; hence the plum-blossom decoration molded in low relief and the figurines in the Chinese manner.
There is also decoration in high relief and painting in blue and in other colors on white.