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On August 24th, 1572 approximately 7,000 protestants were murdered in France. This horrific event was named the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Marguerite de Valois, Queen Catherine de Medicis daughter was arranged to marry Henry of Navarre on August 18th. Marguerite and the rest of the Valois family were extremely Catholic while Henry was a Huguenot (Calvinist Protestants). This marriage was an attempt the break the religious tension and join together the religions in peace, or so they thought.

Protestants brought about a massacre of thousands of Protestant victims in the Paris, its neighboring urban centers, as well as in the countryside on 24 August 1572. The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was one of the bloodiest events in early modern French History, and initiated an intensified and bloodier period in the War of Religion. This paper will analyze testimonies from Catholic and Huguenot viewpoints by looking at the massacre’s historical context, the massacre itself, as well as its importance

Protestants. On August 24th, 1572, a day known to Catholics as “St. Bartholomew’s Day”, thousands of Protestants were murdered by Catholics. From then on, this day was known as “The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.” Authors Barbra Diefendorf, and Philip Benedict both wrote about this devastating time in history with contrasting approaches to the issue. Though sharing in some similarities, the approaches in which Diefendorf and Benedict take on the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre are significantly contrastive

Bartholomew’s Day Massacre? August 25, 1572, marked the infamous day of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. The slaughter of Gaspard de Coligny and several dozen Huguenot leaders, followed by the murder of thousands of people in the streets of Paris that day set off tremendous shock waves throughout Europe. As Barbara Diefendorf points out, the massacre provides a ‘graphic illustration’ of the savagery of the religious strife in France at that time. The question of responsibility of the Massacre has been

On the day of February 14th, 1929 Four men walked into S.M.C. Cartage Company at around 10:30 am. After a bone-rattling set of gunfire was heard, they walked back out, two of them looking like police officers, leading the other two out by shotgun escort. Little did everyone around them suspect they all were apart of the murders that were just committed, the amount of blood loss and ammunition used leading to the papers dubbing it the “St. Valentine's Day Massacre” despite only seven victims. We all

3 16 May 2016 Cupids and Capone St. Valentine's Day, a holiday for which love is expressed is a commemoration that occurs once a year. It is a time of year in which displays of affection are given in the form of chocolates and roses, interchanged between loved ones. However in the year 1929, Valentine's Day was forever changed for the people of Chicago, Illinois. A man by the name of Scarface, Al Capone, transformed it into a day of bloody massacre. A familiar bootlegger in Chicago, Al Capone made

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Bartholomew’s Day massacre occurred in the city of Paris on the night of August 24th, 1572 (Montaigne xxix). During this short period of time, it is estimated that 2,000 people were slaughtered, including the Huguenot leaders, leaving a trail of blood and violence behind

properties such as churches and assaulted priests. On the other hand, Catholics directly attacked the Huguenots through methods of stoning and interruptions of worship. Leading up to The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, tension was already high between the Huguenots and the Catholics. Massacres took place throughout France and the three religious wars showed no sign of an end to the violence. In hopes to gain power over the Protestants, Queen Catherine de Medici organized a marriage between her daughter