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  • The oath of Henri de Guise: he and his mother look at a painting of the assassination of his father, and vow revenge. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Rousseau after P.-C. Comte, 1864.
  • Henri Duc de Guise has his hand trapped in a split tree trunk when the two parts of the tree are brought together, contrary to Nature; the tree representing the family tree of the kings of France, which diverges into a Valois branch and a Bourbon (Navarre) branch. Etching.