Huguenots taking refuge in the English embassy during The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Paris, France, 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. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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