St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

[Gooding]

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Today in history, King Charles IX of France, goaded by his mother, Marie de Medici, authorized a whole scale slaughter of French Huguenots on the pretext of suspected rebellion. That day reinstated a religious Civil War that cost France hundreds of lives, Catholic and Protestant alike.

[Dylan]

I think the violence between Catholics and Protestants was particularly gruesome in the southern and western parts of France (i.e. this massacre was in Bordeaux) I think a decent portion of French-Canadians and Acadians descend from Huguenots and other people who were wrapped up in the conflict. I know I found some Huguenot ancestors from La Rochelle, I believe (West France)

[Gooding]

I think the violence between Catholics and Protestants was particularly gruesome in the southern and western parts of France (i.e. this massacre was in Bordeaux) I think a decent portion of French-Canadians and Acadians descend from Huguenots and other people who were wrapped up in the conflict. I know I found some Huguenot ancestors from La Rochelle, I believe (West France)

How interesting! I descend from French Catholics in the Western and Southern portions of France.. in fact, when my great- grandmother married my great grandfather, her parents would not talk to her until my great grandfather agreed to be converted to Catholicism. Apparently, the animosity between Catholics and Protestants ran pretty deeply.

[Dylan]

How interesting! I descend from French Catholics in the Western and Southern portions of France.. in fact, when my great- grandmother married my great grandfather, her parents would not talk to her until my great grandfather agreed to be converted to Catholicism. Apparently, the animosity between Catholics and Protestants ran pretty deeply.

same here, all my recent ancestry is Catholic, I think the vast majority of French Protestants who ended up in Quebec and Louisiana became Catholicized and the the one's who remained Protestant probably filtered into Anglo-America.

[Gooding]

same here, all my recent ancestry is Catholic, I think the vast majority of French Protestants who ended up in Quebec and Louisiana became Catholicized and the the one's who remained Protestant probably filtered into Anglo-America.

That would make sense, to be honest.. here's a link to the only French Huguenot church left in the United States: http://www.huguenot-church.org/ I'm sure they've a memorial set up for today.

[Lawalye]

French protestants gained too much power and were always asking for more autonomy in the area where they were the majority, don't forget that the french monarchy is based on an enlightened monarchy highly connected with the catholic church, the growing of protestantism in France would have lead to separatism.


The massacre of St-Barthelemy was a revenge of a revenge which was a revenge of an other revenge and so one.

An escalation of violence, the law of retaliation on background.