Jacques Clément
08/02/1589 AD killed by
Clément was admitted to the king's presence, and while he was presenting his letters he told the king he had an important and confidential message to deliver.
The attendants then withdrew and, as Clément leaned in to whisper in Henry's ear, he mortally wounded him with a dagger concealed beneath his cloak.
The assassin was immediately killed by the returning attendants, but Henry died early in the morning of the following day. Clément's body was later quartered and burned.
His crime led Le Laboureur to anagrammatize “Frère Jacques Clément” into “C'est l'enfer qui m'a créé” (“It is hell that created me”)
