On August 24, 1572, just before dawn, the bell of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois began to toll. What happened next would become one of the worst religious massacres of the 16th century. The St. Bartholomew ...

A little after midnight on the 24th of August, 1572 began the famed massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day, in which some 2,000 Huguenots were killed by the mob in Paris alone. Last week, in hundreds of ...

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Carnegie Institute, Museum ...

The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of ...

The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre began soon after Protestant Henri of Navarre wed Catholic Marguerite of Valois. More than 400 years later, the prospect of a cross-confessional marriage once again ...

Huguenot intrigues swirled around a handful of key figures. In 1575 a heavily slanted piece of propaganda called the “Marvellous discourse on the life, actions and misconduct of Catherine de Médicis, ...