One group formed the Politiques movement in the aftermath of this event, and Francis Walsingham barely escaped from the backlash of this event.
One group formed the Politiques movement in the aftermath of this event, and Francis Walsingham barely escaped from the backlash of this event. It began when the ringing of a bell of the Church of St-Germain L'Auxerrois, and occurred shortly after the First Peace of St. Germain. It was sparked by an assassination attempt on Gaspard de Coligny, who was recently reinstated as a royal advisor, and by the marriage of Henry III and Marguerite of Valois. Engineered largely by Catherine de Medici and the Guise family to end the influence of a certain group on royal policy, FTP, name this 1572 massacre of Hugenots in France.
One group formed the Politiques movement in the aftermath of this event, and Francis Walsingham barely escaped from the backlash of this event.
{St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre}