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Intricacies of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

By Olivia LonguevilleIn Tudor & Renaissance Blog, Valois blogPosted August 23, 2020

On the night of the 23 and 24th of August 1572, the sanguineous St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was carried out in Paris.  It was the cold-blooded murder of thousands of French Protestants called ‘Huguenots’, which appears to have been orchestrated by the formidable mother of King Charles IX of France...

Tags: Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, catherine de medici, Catherine de’ Medici the Queen Mother, french history, Henri III of Navarre, House of Guise, House of Valois, King Charles IX of France, King Henri IV of France, Protestantism, Queen Marguerite de Valois, religious wars, St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the Huguenots, Wars of Religion in France
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