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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ardèche is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that encompasses Vivarais and parts of Languedoc. One of its tourist attractions is the so-called Chemin Royal du Boutières, a route ...
On August 24, 1572, just before dawn, the bell of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois began to toll. What happened next would become one of the worst religious massacres of the 16th century. The St. Bartholomew ...
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