亮 BLANCHE GAMOND. CHAPTER I. A DIP INTO FRENCH HISTORY. HAVE before me a list of the most notable assassinations that are recorded by historians. A very ugly list it is, as one may suppose. Since, however, we must take history as we find it, and not make it for ourselves, we have just to accept this dark catalogue. Two out of the long row are the assassinations of French kings, and stand thus: Henry III., 1589, by Jacques Clement. |