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Coligny's body was thrown from the window into the street, and was subsequently mutilated, castrated, dragged through the mud, thrown in the river, suspended on a gallows and burned by the Parisian crowd.
On 22 August, an attempt was made on Coligny's life as he made his way back to his house from the Louvre.
The Catholics now feared Huguenot retaliation for the attempt on Coligny's life, and it was decided to pre-emptively assassinate their leadership, in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Coligny's papers were seized and burned by the queen mother ; among them, according to Brantôme, was a history of the civil war, " very fair and well-written, and worthy of publication ".

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Amongst other things, Catherine reportedly feared that Coligny's influence would drag France into a war with Spain over the Netherlands.

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On August 22, an assassin made a failed attempt on Coligny's life, shooting him in the street from a window.

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* October 3 – Battle of Moncountour: The Royalist forces of Tavannaes and Anjou defeat Coligny's Huguenots.
Although Dubois did not witness the massacre, he depicts Admiral Coligny's body hanging out of a window at the rear to the right.
After several of his entourage had been killed, a servant of the new Duke of Guise, Charles Danowitz or Jean Charles D ´ Ianowitz ( Karel z Janovic ), generally known as Besme or Bême ( Noble Family from Bohemia ( CZ ) Janovský z Janovic ), plunged a sword through Coligny's breast and threw his body out of a window to his master's feet.
Coligny's murder ( falling body, upper left ), as depicted in a mural by Giorgio Vasari.
Coligny's political motivations are stressed.
Coligny's and Villegaignon's dream had lasted a mere 12 years.

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In this year, when his brother-in-law Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons fled from France after his failed conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, Thomas Francis acted as intermediary between Soissons and the Spanish in negotiations which led to a formal alliance between the count and Philip IV of Spain concluded 28 June 1637-although within a month Soissons had reconciled with France.
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In Summer 458, a group of Vandals, led by the brother-in-law of Genseric, landed in Campania, at the mouth of the Liri or the Garigliano river, and started devastating and sacking the region.
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At the Battle of Agagia Ja ’ far was captured by the British led forces and incarcerated in a citadel in Cairo with his friend and later brother-in-law Nuri as-Said.
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Murat married Caroline Bonaparte in a civil ceremony on 20 January 1800 at Mortefontaine and religiously on 4 January 1802 in Paris, thus becoming a son-in-law of Letizia Ramolino as well as brother-in-law to Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon I of France, Lucien Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte and Jérôme Bonaparte.
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