书目名称 | The Massacre of St. Bartholomew | 副标题 | Reappraisals and Doc | 编辑 | Alfred Soman | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/914/913690/913690.mp4 | 丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | On 18 August 1572, Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles IX, was married in Paris to Henri de Navarre, "first prince of the blood" and a Protestant. This union, which was to cement the provisions of the Peace of St. Germain (1570) ending the third of the French wars of religion, was the occasion of an extraordinary influx of French Calvin ists into the notoriously Catholic capital. Hundreds of Huguenots had journeyed to Paris to honor their titular leader and participate in the wedding celebrations. Tensions were already running high when the court made the fatal decision to take advantage of the situation and assassinate the admiral of France, Gaspard de Coligny, the recognized leader of the Huguenot armies which had helped plunge the country into ten years of intermittent civil war, and who now threatened to embroil the kingdom in a full-scale foreign war with Spain. On Friday the twenty-second, as he returned from the Louvre to his lodgings, Coligny paused in the street - some say to receive a letter, others to doff his hat to an acquaintance or to adjust his hose - and was fired on by a hired assassin hidden in a house known to belong to one of the ultra-Catholic Guise | 出版日期 | Book 1974 | 关键词 | Civil War; Europe; huguenot; seventeenth century | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1601-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-1603-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-010-1601-8Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 | issn_series | 0066-6610 | copyright | Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1974 |
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