Fran%C3%A7ois Ravaillac

Franois Ravaillac was a French factotum in the courts of Angoulme and a regicide. An occasional tutor and Catholic zealot, he murdered King Henry IV of France in 1610.

Ravaillac was born at Angoulme of an educated family his grandfather Franois Ravaillac, was prosecutor of Angoulme, and two of his uncles were canons of the Cathedral of Angoulme. His father Jean Ravaillac was a violent man whose many misdeeds were a public scandal and caused legal difficulties his mother Franoise Dubreuil was known for her Catholic piety. The son Ravaillac began work as a servant, later becoming a school teacher. Obsessed by religion, he sought admission to the ascetic Feuillants order, but after a short probation, he was dismissed as being prey to visions. An application in 1606 for admission to the Society of Jesus was also unsuccessful.

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