History Fun Facts September 12th
HISTORY FUN FACTS for SEPTEMBER 12th On This Day In History in 1642, Henri Coiffier de Ruze, the Marquis de Cinq-Mars (you get extra points if you tried to pronounce all that correctly), died after he discovered a problem with his neck. After a close inspection, Henri found his neck no longer had a head on it. This resulted in almost instant death. The Marquis de Cinq-Mars was heard to shout, as his head sat plonked on the floor staring at his neck from a few feet away, "Where the friggin hell is my head?" He then realised what had happened and whispered, "This is going to take some serious conspiring to put right." Which gets us to the reason he found his head detached from his body. Henri was one of many at the time who were conspiring against the infamous Cardinal Richelieu (the one the three Musketeers hated). Henri's father was a very close friend of Cardinal Richelieu and after his father's death Henri was brought...