Huguenots torturing 30 Catholics in Angouleme, France. Pairs of imprisoned famished catholics turn cannibal, others are pulled naked on a rope, and others burnt slowly at the stake. Tortures infligees aux catholiques par les huguenots dans le midi de la France. Copperplate from Theatrum crudelitatum nostri temporis, Anvers, 1587. Woodcut by Etienne Huyot and Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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