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The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew and the Baronial Wars, 1570–84

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A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483–1598

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The massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s day was the turning-point of the period. In retrospect, everything beforehand seems to point towards it, and everything afterwards seems to be shaped and determined by what people saw and remembered of that day.

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  1. Jules Gassot, Sommaire mémorial (souvenirs), 1555–1625 (Paris, 1934), p. 144.

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Garrisson, J. (1995). The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew and the Baronial Wars, 1570–84. In: A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483–1598. European Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24020-3_15

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