Project Gutenberg 2025-04-27 Public domain in the USA. 1045 White, Henry 1812 1880 White, H. (Henry) The massacre of St. Bartholomew : $b Preceded by a history of the religious wars in the reign of Charles IX $aNew York :$bHarper & Brothers, $c1868. Brian 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.) "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.) https://archive.org/details/massacreofstbart00whitiala/page/n7/mode/2up 20231017051232white 1868 us Reading ease score: 67.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 DC Text Category: History - European Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: History - Religious 1394261 2025-09-30T05:52:56.090990 text/html 1336843 2025-04-27T06:53:40 text/html 921785 2025-09-30T05:53:13.299852 application/epub+zip 937276 2025-09-30T05:52:59.237950 application/epub+zip 638862 2025-09-30T05:52:57.730030 application/epub+zip 1358229 2025-09-30T05:53:23.521806 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1327267 2025-09-30T05:53:11.850878 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1136003 2025-09-30T05:52:53.549956 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1115964 2025-04-27T06:53:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16763 2025-09-30T05:53:23.668809 application/rdf+xml 5310 2025-09-30T05:52:58.033937 image/jpeg 1228 2025-09-30T05:52:57.881931 image/jpeg 853365 2025-09-30T05:52:56.197926 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog