Caption:
'Queen Elizabeth Receiving the French Ambassadors after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew', 1890. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I of England's ambassador to France, barely escaped with his life following the 1592 St Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]