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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre · François Dubois 1529-1584, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1572
Where
Paris
Era
Early Modern

Topics

France359 BCE – todayKingdom of France538 CE – 1791

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