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To my horror, my husband's prediction turned out to be correct. Only two days later, the following Friday, an attack on a leading Protestant did occur on the open streets of Paris. As the elderly Admiral Coligny walked from a worship service to his lodgings, a shot rang out. The bullet grazed him, but fearing for another attempt on his life, his men dragged him inside and to safety.
No one knew for certain who fired the shot, or in whose interest the assailant acted, but most placed blame at the feet of my brother-in-law, the Duc de Guise, and his mother, Anna. The Guise blamed the Admiral for the death of the previous Duc de Guise and Anna had many times been overhead threatening to take her revenge on Coligny. Whether the Guise had a hand in the assassination attempt or not, this put
