After a series of assassination attempts against King Henry IV, the Jesuits who had been accused of complicity in at least two cases were expelled from France in 1595. A pyramidal monument was built near the Palace of Justice in order to commemorate the events, but was torn down few years after, in 1603. During the anti-Jesuit debates of the mid-18th century, the memory of the monument was revived and images of it were produced as "historical evidence" against the order.
Monument de l’exécrable doctrine du régicide enseignée et pratiquée par les soi-disans Jésuites, etching, Paris ca. 1760, unknown artist; Source: Bibliothèque de Port-Royal, Paris, Est. 281.