Two of the most legendary, Henri II and Catherine de Médicis. Henri died in a jousting accident, killed by his best friend in 1559. France was then in the midst of the quarrels be the New Religion of the Protestants and the Old of the Catholics. Without Henri II, civil war was inevitable.
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