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The Huguenots as Subversives? The Huguenots as Subversives?
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War Against the Enemy Within War Against the Enemy Within
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From War to Insurrection From War to Insurrection
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The Ambiguities of the Provincial Massacres The Ambiguities of the Provincial Massacres
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Notes Notes
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Abstract
It quickly became impossible to keep the lid on the retribution inflicted on the Protestant leaders, especially as finding and executing many of them involved the executioners fanning out across Paris. Inevitably, news and rumour spread about a royal licence to engage in a wider cull of Protestants, themselves suspected of subversion and of plotting a bloodbath of their Catholic neighbours. With anti-Protestant anger already well stoked, a ‘popular’ second Massacre quickly began on 24 August and lasted several weeks. It was not selective about its victims, who included women and children, often murdered in gruesome fashion, with parodies of judicial proceedings and symbolic humiliation; gangs hurled victims from buildings or into the Seine, having sometimes looted the property of their victims. Personal or family scores were settled. Some people escaped death by fleeing as best they could, and left harrowing accounts of their experiences, which this chapter relies on in several places. A number of provincial cities (Rouen, Lyon, Angers, Orleans, Toulouse, Bordeaux) followed the example of Paris, while others (Nantes, Limoges, Montpellier) firmly refused such bloodshed, hoping to maintain peaceful community relations. Royal orders to leave the Huguenots in peace and preserve law and order were deliberately misinterpreted by Catholics bent on their elimination.
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