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The Ambush The Ambush
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The Attack and its Unidentifiable Instigator The Attack and its Unidentifiable Instigator
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The Fervour and Anxieties of Paris The Fervour and Anxieties of Paris
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Peace Assasinated Peace Assasinated
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Abstract
Confessional co-existence between mutually hostile Catholics and Protestants was increasingly fragile, since tolerance was in short supply on both sides. An incident would suffice to re-ignite conflict, especially in a city as anti-Protestant as Paris. The Massacre was a two-stage affair, whose initial trigger and precise motive still remain mysterious, and may well have been part of a personal vendetta rather than a political agenda. The identity of the killers/planners of the original attack on Admiral Coligny has not been firmly established, since the ‘usual suspects’ – Philip II, the Guise family, Catherine de Medici – all had good reasons not to risk taking such action in the 1572 context. Nevertheless, that initial botched assassination did succeed in ‘killing the peace’ that Coligny embodied, while also making it urgent to finish the job by eliminating the Protestant leaders present in Paris and to prevent a revolt in the capital.
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