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François de Lorraine, second Duke of Guise (1519-1563) He was known as la Balafré (the Scarred), and was implicated in the massacre of Huguenots at Vassy in 1562, marking the beginning of civil wars.
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 244.
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