Catherine de' Medici sees victims of the The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572. A targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici. Catherine de' Medici,1519 –1589. Italian noblewoman who was Queen of France as the wife of King Henry II. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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