Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Margherit'a di Valois

married Henri the Béarnais, afterwards Henri IV. of France. During the wedding soleminites, Catherine de Medicis devised the massacre of the French Protestants, and Margherita was at a ball during the dreadful enactment of this device. (Meyerbeer: Gli Ugonotti, an opera.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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