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The Massacre of St. Bartholomew - Reappraisals and Documents (Hardcover, 1974 ed.)
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The Massacre of St. Bartholomew - Reappraisals and Documents (Hardcover, 1974 ed.)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 75
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On 18 August 1572, Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles IX,
was married in Paris to Henri de Navarre, "first prince of the
blood" and a Protestant. This union, which was to cement the
provisions of the Peace of St. Germain (1570) ending the third of
the French wars of religion, was the occasion of an extraordinary
influx of French Calvin ists into the notoriously Catholic capital.
Hundreds of Huguenots had journeyed to Paris to honor their titular
leader and participate in the wedding celebrations. Tensions were
already running high when the court made the fatal decision to take
advantage of the situation and assassinate the admiral of France,
Gaspard de Coligny, the recognized leader of the Huguenot armies
which had helped plunge the country into ten years of intermittent
civil war, and who now threatened to embroil the kingdom in a
full-scale foreign war with Spain. On Friday the twenty-second, as
he returned from the Louvre to his lodgings, Coligny paused in the
street - some say to receive a letter, others to doff his hat to an
acquaintance or to adjust his hose - and was fired on by a hired
assassin hidden in a house known to belong to one of the
ultra-Catholic Guise faction. The arquebus shot missed its mark and
succeeded only in wounding the admiral in his hand and arm, where
upon he was carried by his followers to his bed."
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