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St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
The
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
(
Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy
in
French
) in 1572 was a targeted group of
assassinations
and a wave of
Catholic
mob violence
, directed against the
Huguenots
(French
Calvinist
Protestants
) during the
French Wars of Religion
. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by
Catherine de' Medici
, the mother of King
Charles IX
, the
massacre
took place five days after the wedding of the king's sister
Margaret
to the Protestant
Henry III of Navarre
(the future Henry IV of France). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic
Paris
.
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