FTP, what was this 1572 massacre of French Huguenots?
Despite a royal order ordering it to end on August 25, it continued unabated in the countryside, leading to 70,000 deaths. Prompted both by a failed assassination plot against Admiral Coligny and the gathering of many prominent leaders for the wedding of Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre, it was a Guise plot reluctantly joined by King Charles IX and organized by Catherine de'Medici. FTP, what was this 1572 massacre of French Huguenots?
Despite a royal order ordering it to end on August 25, it continued unabated in the countryside, leading to 70,000 deaths.
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre