Engraving of the Mérindol massacre of 1545, when Francis I of France ordered the Waldensians of the village of Mérindol to be punished for dissident religious activities. Provençal and papal soldiers killed hundreds or even thousands of Waldensian villagers. This image by Gustave Dore, 1830s

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