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Catherine de' Medici's deadly plot and the mass murder of Huguenots
On August 24, 1572, just before dawn, the bell of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois began to toll. What happened next would become ...
Being a composer could be a dangerous business during the Reformation. The first composer on this disc, Claude Goudimel, died in the St Bartholomew’s Day massacres in Lyons in 1572, the year when ...
Owen Stanwood, assistant history professor at Boston College, spoke Friday to students about the Huguenots — French Protestants who fled France in the 16th and 17th centuries due to religious ...
The history of the Huguenots is "a story of high relevance for our times", says Geoffrey Treasure. His ambitious study is also a history of France spanning two centuries, beginning in the early 16th ...
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An urban holocaust: the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, 1572 Credit: Photo: Prisma / UIG / Rex Features In Paris, in the early hours of August 24, 1572, bells rang to signal the beginning of a ...
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