The purpose of the DeKalb County Historical Society is to study, preserve and record our heritage. By the end of 1969, 167 members from many areas of the United States had joined the Society. Native Americans were here first..Next came fur traders and trail blazers, settlers followed.
King Henry III of France was assassinated in the siege by Jacques ClÃ©ment. On August 1, 1589, Henry III, lodged with his army in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris when a young fanatical Dominican friar named Jacques ClÃ©ment, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the King.
Henry II of France. Henry II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 â 10 July 1559) was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis III, Duke of Brittany, in 1536.