The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre : the Mysteries of a Crime of State.

On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France's Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king's council unleashed a...

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Main Author: Jouanna, Arlette
Other Authors: Bergin, Joseph
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
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505 8 |a 7. PROTESTANT MISFORTUNE IN BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE8. POLITICAL READINGS OF THE FRENCH TRAGEDY; 9. THE KING'S DEATH, OR THEMEANING OF A MASSACRE REVEALED; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX: SOCIO-PROFESSIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE MASSACRE VICTIMS ACCORDING TO LISTS IN PROTESTANT SOURCES; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. 
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