(dramatic orchestral music)
For the kingdom of France (horse neighing)
and for God!
The wars of religion shaped the Europe
we live in today. (men shouting)
(dramatic orchestral music)
(cannon firing) (soldiers shouting)
I have the heart and the stomach of a king!
(swords clashing) (gun firing)
In the 16th century,
religion and power were inextricably linked.
(woman laughing)
Your Majesty, the Catholics disobey you!
I will never marry that heretic, do you hear me, never!
(woman gasps)
What have you done, Henry?
What have you done to this kingdom?
Promise me that it will remain Catholic.
At the time of the Renaissance,
the rulers of Europe's most important nations fought
each other violently in the name of God.
Kill them!
(sword ringing) (woman screaming)
Kill them all! (baby crying)
May God punish the heretics! (woman screaming)
(hooves thundering) (swords clashing)
There must be another solution.
(executioner shouting)
She will take the throne of England.
Plus, your prince offers the Netherlands
for an army.
Betrayal. -: (gasps) It can't be true!
Jealousy
and passions rock the most influential families.
We cannot allow this!
I admire your audacity!
(marble shatters)
A merciless game of power and faith.
Have faith in me. (woman screams)
This is the true history of Europe.
(moves into triumphant orchestral music)
(swords clashing)
(wind howling)
(dramatic orchestral music)
With the rise of Protestantism,
Europe was plunged into bloody war.
(soldiers shouting)
Among the Catholics, France was weakened by a regency.
Spain was faced with a revolt. (crowds shouting)
In Scotland, the Queen risked losing her throne for love.
While Protestant England dangerously fanned the flames.
Europe's monarchs had never had
so much trouble keeping their thrones.
(moves into passionate orchestral music)
Your Majesty. (suspenseful orchestral music)
For peace in the kingdom,
I beseech you, Antoine de Bourbon,
officially renounce all thoughts of becoming regent.
In France, on the death of Francis II,
his mother, Catherine de Medici,
claimed the regency of the kingdom by keeping
her cousin, Antoine of Navarre,
and the ultra-Catholic Guise brothers away from the throne.
(ethereal orchestral music)
Catherine de Medici's first political act was
to grant the Protestants an Edict of Tolerance.
The so-called Edict of January authorized them
to freely practice their religion,
but only outside the cities.
There's somebody over there! -: No!
(ominous music)
Despite this new tolerance,
the Huguenots were being watched by spies.
(hooves thundering)
These spies were in the pay of France's Duke of Guise
and his brother, Charles, the Cardinal of Lorraine.
The Guise brothers were once advisors to King Henry II,
but Catherine de Medici had sent them packing.
They refused to accept the freedom of worship accorded
to people they considered heretics.
Tolerance towards the Huguenots!
Only a woman would consider that!
Damned foreigner!
We'll need to find a way.
To do this, we will have to--
The woman the Guise brothers called,
The Foreigner, was none other
than Queen Catherine de Medici, Regent of France.
She would rule the kingdom until her son came of age.
The Guise brothers harbored a grudge against Catherine
for keeping them away from power.
Their hatred was so great, they planned to restart the war
between Protestants and Catholics,
proving that Catherine was incapable of running the country.
One event gave them a golden opportunity to strike.
It's a good idea.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
In Champagne, the Guise's stronghold,
Protestants met for prayers in a barn located
inside the city of Wassy.
This was against the terms laid out in the Edict of January.
On March 1, 1562, the Duke of Guise surprised them
in the middle of Mass.
How dare you gather here! (congregation gasps)
Hypocrites!
Protestants, and in my own lands!
(ominous music)
43-years old, Francis of Guise,
known as Scarface, was a renown soldier
and leader of the armed branch of the Catholic Church.
As leader of the Catholic Party,
he was hated by the Protestants.
Get out!
(rock thudding) (woman screaming)
(dramatic orchestral music) (women screaming)
Within minutes,
the fight turned into a massacre.
(sword clashing) (man gasping)
With over 100 dead,
the carnage at Wassy became the first bloody chapter
in the Wars of Religion, a war that would engulf France
and shape Europe for the next 30 years.
(man gasping)
(ominous music)
The day after the massacre of Wassy,
the reaction from the leader of the French-Protestants,
Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, was swift.
Louis was freed by Catherine de Medici
in the first days of her regency.
He ordered an armed response against the Catholics.
(dramatic orchestral music) (soldiers shouting)
On April 2, 1562, the Prince of Conde entered the city
of Tours with 2,000 cavaliers. (swords clashing)
Rouen was next to fall on April 15th.
It was followed by Lyon, Bourges, Grenoble, Le Mans
and then Toulouse.
In six months, the kingdom of France plunged
into the First War of Religion,
dragging Europe behind it in a fight for faith.
(birds calling) (waves crashing)
(light string music)
Your Majesty, I bring you good news from France.
Across the channel,
the Protestant Queen of England, Elizabeth I,
was delighted to discover that,
following the massacre of Wassy,
the French Huguenots had taken up arms
against the Catholics.
Filthy Papists!
(moves into dramatic music)
After four years on the throne,
Elizabeth had shown herself to be a fearsome monarch
and knew how to outmaneuver her enemies.
Among them, the Guise brothers,
the leaders of the ultra-Catholic French.
In September 1562, a messenger arrived
in the name of the Prince of Conde.
Elizabeth could barely hide her curiosity.
Very well, speak!
How can I help our Protestant ally?
The emissary from Conde had come
to ask Elizabeth for support in the war
against the Guises and the Catholics.
Give him men and gold. (sword ringing)
Elizabeth saw immediately the advantages
in backing the French Protestants.
It would weaken the power of the Guises
and could help England regain Calais.
(dramatic orchestral music)
The port city had been in English hands since 1347,
but it had been captured by the French army
under the command of the Duke of Guise four years earlier.
(soldiers shouting) (swords clashing)
A loss that the Queen of England never got over.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
In exchange for 6,000 men and 100,000 gold crowns,
the Prince of Conde promised to give England a channel port
in northern France.
Before marching on Calais,
Conde first took the port of Le Havre
and opened it up to 3,000 of the Queen's soldiers.
In Paris, Catherine de Medici was furious
to learn that English troops had landed in Le Havre
with the help of the leader of the French Protestants.
A traitor! (ominous music)
The very idea that English soldiers had
once again set foot on French soil was unbearable
for the Regent.
(dramatic orchestral music)
She decided to retake Le Havre by force,
driving the English out of France.
(horse neighing)
Despite having no military experience,
Catherine de Medici kept a close watch over the battle.
At 43-years old, the widow of King Henry II
of France was an ambitious woman who loved power
and was intent on safeguarding the crown
for her 12-year old son, Charles IX.
Faced with an increasingly bloody battle,
she begrudgingly handed the command of her armies
to the man she once ousted from power,
Francis, the Duke of Guise.
Ah, Guise.
A wise decision because at Dreux,
Guise managed to capture the Queen's greatest enemy,
the Prince of Conde, Louis of Bourbon.
This was a huge victory for Catherine de Medici.
She could now start to do what she liked best.
Conde.
Negotiate peace in the name of the King.
My son has charged me to restore justice
as well as bringing peace and rest for his subjects.
At your order, Majesty.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Negotiations lasted several weeks.
(moves into haunting music)
They finally resulted in a new peace treaty,
signed at Amboise on March 19, 1563.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Through the Treaty of Amboise,
Catherine de Medici and the Prince of Conde joined forces
and recaptured Le Havre from the English.
Together, Catholics and Protestants laid siege
to the English-held port.
They benefited from an unexpected twist of fate,
(haunting orchestral music)
(bird calling)
the bubonic plague, trapped inside Le Havre.
The English garrison was gradually decimated by the disease.
(birds calling)
After a siege lasting several weeks,
the surviving English surrendered and returned to England.
They also took the plague back home with them,
causing a further 21,000 deaths.
Calais was forever lost to them.
1563 was an (speaking foreign language) for Queen Elizabeth
because in Scotland, her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots,
was also claiming the throne of England.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Since her return to Scotland,
Mary Stuart was having trouble earning
her countrymen's respect.
The Scottish Protestants opposed
the Catholic Queen wearing the crown.
Many of her enemies supported
her Protestant half-brother, James Stuart,
he was regent in her absence.
But since childhood, Mary had been a fighter.
(somber string music)
Mary was only nine months old
when she was crowned Queen of Scotland.
At six, she was threatened with abduction
by the King of England and forced to flee her kingdom.
It saved her life.
Mary was taken in by the King of France, Henry II.
At 16-years old, she married the Dauphin Francis
and was crowned as his queen.
But after only one year of rule,
her husband died without leaving an heir.
Mary was a widow at 22.
The young Queen of France was forced
to leave her adoptive country
and return to Scotland to take up her throne there,
a country which she was now having trouble ruling.
(moves into suspenseful music)
In a letter, Mary, Queen of Scots put pressure
on Elizabeth, Queen of England.
Dearest Cousin, it has been several months
since I regained the throne of Scotland.
Mary asked Elizabeth
to officially recognize her as her successor,
should the Queen of England die without leaving an heir.
(moves into dramatic music)
Mary Stuart had a strong claim to Elizabeth's throne
since the two queens shared the same ancestor,
Henry VII of England, the first of the Tutor kings.
But there was a problem, Mary was Catholic.
If Elizabeth wanted England to remain Protestant,
she must produce an heir.
At 30-years old, the thorny question of marriage raised
its head once again.
Until now, Queen Elizabeth had always refused
to share her throne or power with a man.
(lighthearted pipe music)
And yet, rumors abound that she was in love
with her childhood friend, Robert Dudley.
Dudley grew up alongside Elizabeth
and followed her to her court after her coronation.
He was handsome and intelligent
and only one year older than the Queen.
(moves into heartwarming music)
Dudley was born into the English nobility,
but he was not of royal blood.
Elizabeth was apparently so madly in love with Dudley
that she was prepared to bestow a host of titles on him.
(Suspenseful music)
To save her crown from the Scottish threat,
the Virgin Queen, as she was known throughout her realm,
needed to make a decision.
My Lords,
I shall marry no one.
But if one day, my cousin Mary Stuart,
should sit on the throne of England,
then her child must be one of ours.
That is why, Lord Robert,
I appoint you Earl of Leicester.
You will wed my cousin, Queen Mary.
(water splashing) (Mary gasping)
Three years later, in Scotland,
Mary Stuart was about to give her kingdom an heir.
(Mary gasping)
I can already see the head.
Breathe, Your Majesty. (Mary screaming)
It's all right. (Mary screaming)
Take a deep breath. (Mary screams)
It's coming. (Mary crying)
Very good.
(baby crying)
On June 19, 1566, she gave birth to a boy,
the future James VI of Scotland.
Here, Your Majesty.
A bonny boy, congratulations! (baby gurgling)
(lighthearted string music)
The child's father was not the man
Elizabeth wanted the Scottish Queen to marry.
He was Henry Stuart, Mary Stuart's Catholic cousin.
A seductive young man with a temperament
as fiery as that of his new wife.
(ominous music)
It was not a happy marriage.
The new King Consort of Scotland turned out
to be a drunken, selfish, jealous womanizer.
It was believed he also harbored plans to kill his wife
and steal the throne for himself.
Deeply unhappy, Mary Stuart consoled herself
in the arms of the Lord High Admiral James Hepburn,
Earl of Bothwell, a Protestant noble.
(heartwarming music)
(moves into ominous music) (thunder rumbling)
(lightning crashing)
Eight months later, one winter's night
at two o'clock in the morning,
a violent explosion shook the city of Edinburgh.
Your Majesty, Majesty!
Your husband has been murdered!
Inform the Earl of Bothwell.
On hearing that her husband,
the King Consort, had been assassinated,
Mary Stuart remained strangely calm.
But the finger of suspicion immediately pointed
at Mary's lover, the Earl of Bothwell.
(dramatic orchestral music)
After an investigation and a fake trial,
Bothwell was declared innocent of the assassination.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
On May 15, 1567,
two months after Henry Stuart's mysterious death,
Lord Bothwell and Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots married.
(solemn organ music)
The marriage shocked all of Europe,
especially the Protestant Scottish nobles.
They were convinced that Mary was an accomplice
in her husband's murder.
(ominous music)
(horse neighing)
(moves into dramatic orchestral music)
(hooves thundering)
Mary Stuart was in serious danger.
A month after her wedding, she escaped Edinburgh
and met up with her husband, Bothwell.
One week earlier, fearing for his life,
Bothwell fled to the south of Scotland.
Despite being found not guilty,
all Scottish Protestants had no doubt
that he was responsible for the murder of the King Consort.
(dramatic orchestral music)
(boots pounding) (Mary sighing)
My love!
We shall gather our friends together
and prove our innocence, I promise! (gasps)
We will, we will prevail, my love!
(somber music)
(Mary gasps)
In an attempt to regain her legitimacy
in the eyes of her subjects,
the 25-year old queen gathered together an army made up
of poorly-armed commoners and marched on Edinburgh.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
Mary was also dressed as a commoner,
she wore a kilt, red blouse
and a black velvet Tam o'Shanter.
On June 15, 1567, Mary found herself facing her enemies
at Carbury Hill, a few miles west of Edinburgh.
After hours of talks,
Mary Stuart finally accepted the Scottish nobles' proposals.
She surrendered in return for Bothwell's freedom.
(somber music)
She had just enough time to give her husband one last kiss
before following her enemies to prison.
Mary Stuart would never again see the man
for whom she gave up her throne.
Over 600 miles from Scotland,
the Protestants of Flanders also wanted
to overthrow their ruler.
(dramatic orchestral music) (people shouting)
Please!
Oh, God, please! (people shouting)
Oh, my Lord, please save me, my Lord!
Freedom, oh, my Lord!
For a year now,
Flemish Protestants had been executed en masse
by the Catholic authorities in the name
of King Philip II of Spain.
11 years earlier,
Philip had inherited a vast empire comprised
of lands in the New World,
Spain, the majority of Italy,
Flanders and the Spanish Netherlands,
which included Belgium, Luxembourg and present-day Holland.
(dramatic orchestral music)
It was Philip's second-wealthiest stronghold,
but it was also the most rebellious.
Save me, my Lord! (people shouting)
Across Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges,
the King of Spain was burning
those he called heretics at the stake.
(crowd shouting) Hear me out, my Lord!
Please, hear me out, my Lord!
Will you shut her up!
Lord, hear my prayer! -: No, let her pray!
(crowd shouting)
In the face of this violent cruelty,
one Sunday afternoon in 1566,
Catholics and Protestants united and began to revolt.
(crowd shouting)
Get out, executioner!
(uplifting music) (crowd shouting)
Part of the Dutch nobility presented a petition
to Margaret of Parma, the Governor of the Netherlands.
She was the half-sister of the King of Spain.
To reassure her, her counselors uttered a phrase
that would ignite the powder keg of Flanders.
They are nothing but beggars, Milady.
When the insult reached the ears
of the Flemish noblemen,
they quickly organized the Beggars' Revolt.
The King of Spain struggled to contain the uprising,
but Philip refused to lose this territory,
it was totally out of the question.
(ominous music)
(metal clanging)
In the summer of 1566, as an aside to the Beggars' Revolt,
the group of ultra-radical Protestants vandalized
Catholic places of worship.
(wood crashing) (glass clinking)
Religious paintings, carvings,
relics and statues were destroyed.
400 churches and monasteries were ravaged.
Protestant church services were held in places
that had been so-called, purified.
(dramatic orchestral music)
The revolt soon spread across all Flanders.
To quash it, King Philip of Spain sent 20,000 men
to crush the Reformists,
consolidating his power in the region.
Philip wanted the King of France to come to his aid,
but Charles IX was also in trouble.
King Charles was now 17-years old.
He had been ruling France for four years,
but the young man was mentally fragile
and easily manipulated by his ambitious mother,
Catherine de Medici.
Despite losing the regency when her son came of age,
Catherine remained a key decision maker
in the affairs of the kingdom.
And in 1567, France was hit by the knock-on effect
of the troubles flaring up in the Spanish Netherlands.
(crickets chirping) (suspenseful orchestral music)
The revolt in Flanders had rekindled
the Protestant's enthusiasm,
especially that of the Prince of Conde.
Despite the Treaty of Amboise,
which he had signed four years earlier
with Catherine de Medici,
Conde now wanted to take up arms against the Catholics
in support of the Flemish beggars.
My friends, the Catholics continue to humiliate us.
The Pope condemns us.
And the King has doubled his guard, such is his fear of us.
(nobleman scoffs)
It's high time to unify the kingdom ourselves.
The Prince of Conde was a member
of the House of Bourbon, rivals of the Valois.
But with an equally-legitimate claim to the French throne
because the Prince of Conde was cousin
to the King of France, Charles IX
and both were the descendants of Louis IX.
As such, Conde hoped to be appointed Commander
of the King's Army
and use it to support the Protestants of Flanders.
But Catherine de Medici wasn't fooled,
she anticipated Conde's intentions
and refused him of the privileged position.
Conde was furious.
(ominous music)
The King and the merchant woman are staying here,
at Chateau de Montceaux-Les-Meaux.
That's where we'll attack.
To get rid of Catherine de Medici,
whom Conde called The Italian Merchant woman,
he and the other Protestant leaders decided
to kidnap the King and the entire royal family.
(suspenseful orchestral music) (crickets chirping)
The plot became known as the Surprise of Meaux,
but it would ultimately fail
as Catherine de Medici had been forewarned.
This was a disaster for the Protestants.
Charles, wake up!
Come on, dress yourself, quickly!
In the middle of the night,
Catherine and the young king fled the castle
of Montceaux-Les-Meaux to the east of Paris
and rode to the Louvre in the capital.
Hurry now, hurry!
(suspenseful orchestral music)
From that moment on,
the Queen Mother and King Charles considered Conde guilty
of treason and swore he would never be pardoned.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Throughout the kingdom, Conde's men took up arms.
(soldiers shouting)
On September 30, 1567,
his men murdered 80 Catholics in Nimes.
(horse neighs) (soldier shouting)
In Orleans, they caused the collapse
of part of the cathedral.
In Picardy, the Huguenots lay waste
to the region of Soissons,
while at the gates of Paris, Conde had laid siege.
(soldiers shouting)
(dramatic orchestral music)
(rapiers clashing)
Earlier in the fall, Catherine de Medici learned
that the Prince of Conde had moved in 4,000 men
at Saint-Denis to destroy the windmills
and starve the capital into surrender.
Charles, your heretic cousin will never cease
to torment us!
He's now at the gates of Paris!
(rapiers clashing) (man gasping)
Mother, please let me lead our army!
I'll bleed those Huguenot dogs to death!
(military percussion music)
En garde!
(rapiers clashing)
(Charles shouting)
Catherine de Medici refused
to expose her son, the King, to danger.
But her intense hatred for the Prince of Conde affected
her common sense.
She decided to send an army to destroy Conde
and his men at the gates of Paris.
(soldiers shouting)
On November 10, 1567, despite having only 5,000 men,
Conde decided to attack the immense royal army.
(tempestuous orchestral music) (swords clashing)
(soldiers shouting)
The Battle of Saint-Denis marked the start
of the Second War of Religion of the Renaissance.
(soldiers shouting)
The Protestants initially broke through the ranks
of the royal soldiers before losing their advantage.
(soldiers shouting)
After two savage hours of combat
in which Conde fought like a lion,
the Protestants managed to outwit the King's troops.
They escaped in order to build up their reinforcements.
(somber flute music)
The battle left the town of Saint-Denis littered
with the corpses of over 1,000 men,
including that of the Duke of Montmorency,
the Commander of the Catholic Royal Army.
(moves into haunting music)
The King's army may have won the Battle of Saint-Denis,
but civil war continued to rage,
most notably in the south of the kingdom.
Two months after the Battle of Saint-Denis,
the Prince of Conde brought in 10,000 German soldiers
to bolster his troops.
(fire crackling) (ominous music)
Their leader was the 24-year old Prince John Casimir.
Casimir was a die-hard Calvinist.
He was keen to show solidarity
with all the Protestants of Europe,
but he had little experience of war.
Also, Conde and Casimir didn't get along.
The German Prince demanded money and food for his men,
but money was something that Conde seriously lacked.
All I can pay you right now (coins rattling)
is this.
Desperate not to lose the German support,
Conde gave permission for Casimir and his men
to pillage every village they entered on the way to Paris.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Meanwhile, within the walls of the Louvre,
Catherine de Medici had made an important decision.
With the commander of the royal army dead at Saint-Denis,
she appointed her youngest son, Henry, Duke of Anjou,
to the position of Lieutenant General of the Kingdom.
(suspenseful orchestral music) (crickets chirping)
These wars of religion cannot continue, Conde,
it's just not possible!
But Catherine de Medici knew
that the treasury was empty
and that her son was not ready to fight.
Once again, the Queen Mother set off in person
for peace talks with her archenemy,
Louis of Bourbon, Prince of Conde.
On my conditions.
No, our conditions, we'll establish them together.
Who's to say mine will be respected?
(somber piano music)
On March 23, 1568,
the Peace of Longjumeau was signed.
Today, the treaty is conserved
in the National Archives in Paris.
(moves into solemn music)
The treaty authorized the practice of Protestant worship
in cities where it was already practiced,
but it would remain prohibited
in Paris and its surroundings.
The treaty brought an end to the Second War of Religion.
But Catherine de Medici wrote that,
"It merely puts a little ash on a huge brazier."
A brazier that Catherine would rekindle
once she heard of the violence being metered out
by the Catholic King of Spain.
(military percussion music) (bells ringing)
In Flanders, Philip the II, King of Spain was stepping
up the pressure on his enemies
in an attempt to establish the one true faith, Catholicism.
No!
No, please, no!
No, no!
An example of this was seen in Brussels
on June 5, 1568, when Philip had two
of his own state counselors,
the Counts of Egmont and Hoorn beheaded.
He judged them too weak in face of the heretics.
No!
Please, no! (executioner grunts)
(ax rings)
The civil war would cost the lives
of more than 1,000 people, both Protestants and Catholics.
(military percussion music) (Count sobbing)
(executioner grunts) (ax rings)
Philip II intended to impose this policy
of repression on his French neighbors.
(foreboding guitar music)
(shoes pounding)
Ah, Ferrier.
What message from our dear cousin in Spain?
The Spanish ambassador sent by Philip demanded
that Catherine de Medici
and King Charles follow the right path
by ridding France of heretics.
They must cease to tolerate Protestants.
(ominous music)
What will he have us do?
Unlike King Charles,
Catherine de Medici feared the threats from Spain,
she therefore, agreed to toughen
her position regarding the Huguenots.
We will act accordingly.
She forced the King
to annul the Peace of Longjumeau
and henceforth prohibit all practice
of the Protestant faith across the entire kingdom.
(birds calling) (waves crashing)
(dramatic orchestral music)
With the annulment of the Edicts of Tolerance,
and through fear of being assassinated himself,
the Prince of Conde, the leader of the French Protestants,
took refuge at La Rochelle,
the new capital of the Huguenots.
Flanders and England had sent troops
and weapons to Conde to support a third war
and many of the German troops were yet to return home.
The Peace of Longjumeau had lasted only five months,
time enough for both sides to reinforce their armies.
(drawbridge cranking)
A third War of Religion was inevitable.
(dramatic orchestral music)
To the West, the Prince of Conde
and his men protected La Rochelle
while waiting for reinforcements,
notably, soldiers sent by William of Orange
and Wolfgang of Bavaria, who had left Holland
and Germany, respectively, to join up with 1,200 men.
King Charles and his mother were
at the head of an army in the East,
trying to stop the Dutch and Germans
from entering France to support the Protestants.
Henry of Anjou headed west,
intent on taking his revenge on the Huguenots.
The battle would finally take place at Jarnac.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
Henry of Anjou,
whom everyone called Monsieur,
was now a deeply respected and trusted military leader.
At Jarnac he had 28,000 men,
twice as many as the Protestants.
He prepared to attack.
My brothers!
For the Kingdom of God (horse neighing)
and his church! (soldiers shouting)
(suspenseful orchestral music)
(soldiers shouting) (dramatic orchestral music)
On March 13, 1569,
at 10 o'clock in the morning,
the two armies finally clashed.
(soldiers shouting) (swords clashing)
(soldiers shouting)
(swords clashing)
For two hours, the soldiers fought in the name of God.
(soldiers shouting)
At noon, the Prince of Conde saw his troops in difficulty
and rode into the heat of battle.
But Conde was thrown from his horse.
(Conde shouting)
He had no option but to surrender.
Just when everyone thought the battle was over,
(gun clicking) (gun firing)
a musketeer from the Catholic Royal Army shot
the Prince of Conde.
He died on the spot. (somber music)
Henry of Anjou's victory over the leader
of the Protestants was acclaimed
by all the Catholics in the kingdom.
(solemn music)
Catherine de Medici could not hide her pride.
Her favorite son was now an important figure
on Europe's political chessboard.
From now on, she wanted all to know
that the kingdom of France could count on Henry of Anjou.
Little did she know
what fate lay in store for her young son.
(dramatic orchestral music)