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It has been claimed that the Huguenot community represented as much as 10% of the French population on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, declining to 7–8% by the end of the 16th century, and further after heavy persecution began once again during the reign of Louis XIV, culminating with the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day had for its background the political and religious rivalries of the court of France. Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, a Huguenot leader, supported a war in the Low Countries against Spain as a means to prevent a resumption of civil war, a plan that the French king, Charles IX, was coming to approve in the summer of 1572. The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a wave of mob violence directed against the French Protestant (Huguenot) minority by the Catholic majority. The massacre killed more than 10,000 people over a period of two months in the fall of 1572. In 1572, the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre led to the deaths of 10,000 Huguenots at the hands of French Catholics. It was one of the bloodiest episodes in early Modern French history and marked a turning point in the religious wars that devastated France from the 1560s to 1590s. The impact of the massacre was profound. The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a widespread slaughter of French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics beginning on 24 August 1572 and lasting over two months, resulting in the deaths of between 5,000 and 25,000 people. In the terrible days that followed, some 3,000 Huguenots were killed in Paris, and perhaps another 8,000 in other provincial cities. This season of blood—known as the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre—decisively ended Huguenot hopes to transform France into a Protestant kingdom. On the night of the 23 and 24th of August 1572, the sanguineous St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was carried out in Paris. It was the cold-blooded murder of thousands of French Protestants called ‘Huguenots’, which appears to have been orchestrated by the formidable mother of King Charles IX of France – Catherine de’ Medici. During the “Wars of Religion” that would claim untold thousands of French lives in succeeding years, atrocities would become all too common, but more than 400 years later, few events in history rival the infamy of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. The surviving Huguenots would be disenfranchised, impoverished or banished to slave galleys. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day was a slaughter of Huguenots begun in Paris on Aug. 24, 1572. Although there had been others in 1562 — at Vassy (March 1), at Sens (April 12), and at Orl é ans (April 21) — this is the most widely known massacre of the Huguenots in France. The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and Images of Kingship in France: 1572-1574 James R. Smither Grand Valley State University The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre violated traditional French concepts of kingship. In ordering the arrest and execution of Coligny and the other Huguenot leaders, Charles IX bypassed standard legal procedures and The massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day marked the resumption of religious civil war in France. By: History.com Editors HISTORY.com works with a wide range of writers and editors to create Primary source accounts of the 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Eye witness account, written by historian Jacques Auguste de Thou: So it was determined to exterminate all the Protestants and the plan was approved by the queen. They discussed for some time whether they should make an exception of the king of Navarre and the prince of Condé. All agreed that the king of Navarre should be The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a widespread slaughter of French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics beginning on 24 August 1572 and lasting over two months, resulting in the deaths of between 5,000 and 25,000 people. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the intended album title for rapper 50 Cent's second studio album. It was later retitled The Massacre, due to date pushbacks. The album was released on March 3, 2005. [18] Grand Theft Auto Online featured an update titled the Valentine's Day Massacre Special. The update released on February 14, 2014. [19] THE NEIGHBORHOOD SITE OF THE ST. VALENTINE’S MASSACRE. The massacre happened inside the SMC Cartage Company‘s garage located at 2122 North Clark Street in Lincoln Park. A Brief History. On February 14, 1349, the city of Strasbourg, France was the scene of a St. Valentine’s Day massacre 150 times worse than the more famous Chicago incident! The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs The issue of war or peace in the Netherlands was closely linked with the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day in Paris on August 23–24, 1572. Upon this occasion, following an abortive attempt against the life of the admiral Gaspard de Coligny, he and a number of his principal lieutenants, together with several thousand Huguenots, were killed. One such masterpiece is A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew’s Day, a stunning painting by John Everett Millais. This artwork, rich in romance and tragedy, transports viewers to one of the most harrowing events in French history—the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1572.
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