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100 1 _aWhite, Henry,
_d1812-1880
245 1 4 _aThe massacre of St. Bartholomew
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-27
508 _aBrian Wilson, Aaron Adrignola, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The massacre of St. Bartholomew: Preceded by a history of the religious wars in the reign of Charles IX" by Henry White is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book explores the religious upheavals that shook France during the sixteenth century, focusing especially on the tragic Massacre of St. Bartholomew and the conflicts between French Catholics and Huguenots. Structured as a comprehensive narrative, it delves into the social, political, and religious causes and effects of the Protestant Reformation in France, offering detailed context for one of the most infamous episodes of religious violence in European history. The opening of the book provides a preface outlining the author's intentions for balanced historical analysis, an overview of the scope of his research, and the sources he relied upon to reconstruct events. The first chapter sets the stage with an introduction to the Renaissance and the early roots of the Reformation in France, highlighting major figures such as Lefevre, Francis I, Margaret of Valois, and Calvin. It describes the growing tensions and brutal episodes of persecution faced by early French Protestants, blending vivid accounts of suffering with broader reflections on religious intolerance and state power. This opening frames the subsequent narrative as not only a chronicle of events but also an exploration of the human cost and moral complexities of France's religious wars. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1868
653 _aFrance -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598
653 _aSaint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/massacreofstbart00whitiala/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75970
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