Jean Châtel

When Henry stooped to help two officials rise who had knelt before him, Châtel attacked him with a knife, striking his lip.

He was at once arrested (prevented from leaving the room by the court jester Mathurine de Vallois) and condemned for the crime of lèse majesté.

As the law prescribed, first Châtel's hand, with which he had struck the King, was burned with molten sulfur, lead and wax.

[1] Under questioning, Châtel revealed that he had been educated by the Jesuits of the Collège de Clermont (now the Lycée Louis-le-Grand).

In the atmosphere of the day, with the wars of Religion still in progress, it was inevitable that the Jesuits would be accused of inspiring Châtel's attack.