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Facts

Location France
Context Calvinism

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François Dubois: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day
Black and white illustration of grieving Huguenots comforting each other indoors as a group of people look anxiously out a window during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France.
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Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de’ Medici
queen of France
Henry III
Henry III
king of France and Poland
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François de Lorraine, 2 duc de Guise
French noble
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon
French admiral and Huguenot leader
Anne, Duke de Montmorency, drawing by the school of Clouet, c. 1560; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Anne, duke de Montmorency
French noble
Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
French soldier and author
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Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly
French diplomat
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Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé
French military leader
Monluc, engraving
Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Monluc
French soldier
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Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, duke de Mercoeur
French prince
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Henri I de Bourbon, 2 prince de Condé
French prince
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François de Beaumont, baron des Adrets
French military leader
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François de La Noue
Huguenot leader
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Charles de Gontaut, baron and duke de Biron
French baron and duke
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François de Bonne, duke de Lesdiguières
French constable
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Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron
French military leader
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Jacques de Savoie, duke de Nemours
French duke
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Charles de Bourbon, count de Soissons
French count and soldier
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Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie, duke de Nemours
French duke