ST.BARTHOLOMEWS DAY MASSACRE

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ST.BARTHOLOMEWS DAY MASSACRE

• The Story of the Blood Wedding

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- KEY FIGURES -

• Catherine de' Medici
• Charles IX
• Gaspard de Coligny

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- MAIN EVENTS-

• The marriage between Henry III of Navarre and
  Marguerite de Valois on August 18, 1572
• The failed assassination of Admiral de Coligny on
  August 22, 1572

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HUGUENOT SIDE

• Huguenot leader - Admiral Coligny
• Influence on Charles IX

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- CATHOLIC SIDE-

• Catherine de' Medici - responsible
• for the marriage between Marguerite
• de Valois and Henry III of Navarre
• Convinces Charles IX to murder
• Coligny and other Huguenots

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SOLUTION - MASSACRE

• Massacre August 24th, 1572
• Approximately 20,000 Huguenots were murdered
  among them Admiral Coligny

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- QUOTE -

• ...the streets and ways did resound with the
  noise of those that flocked to the slaughter and
  plunder, and the complaints and doleful out-cries
  of dying men, and those that were nigh to danger
  were every where heard. The carcasses of the
  slain were thrown down from the windows, the
  Courts chambers of houses were full of dead
  men, their dead bodies rolled in dirt were
  dragged through the streets, blood did flow in
  such abundance through the channels of the
  streets, that full streams of blood did run down
  into the River the number of the slain men,
  women, even those that were great with child, and
  children also, was innumerable.
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- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -

• Controversy arose along the lines of who was
  responsible for the attempted assassination of
  admiral Coligny. Based on the information
  provided, who was most likely linked to the
  crime?
• Was St. Bartholowmews Day Massacre a war of
  religion or simply on an act to gain control and
  power over the state?