Roberval died in 1560, during the religious violence that preceded the formal beginning of the French Wars of Religion.

He appears to have been killed in a street confrontation — the accounts of his death are brief and not entirely consistent.

He died as he had lived: in the middle of the political and religious conflicts of his era.

He never answered for what he did to Marguerite.

She survived what he did to her.

Those two facts stand together as the historical record’s final accounting.

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