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The Massacre at Berlin
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The Massacre at Rome
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The Massacre at Copenhagen
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The Massacre at Paris
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan play by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe. It concerns the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, which took place in Paris in 1572, and the part played by the Duc de Guise in those events.
Detailed explanation-2: -Christopher Marlowe’s play, The Massacre at Paris, was written in 1593 about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when three thousand Protestants were killed in one night in 1572, in a ruthless act of state terrorism by the Catholic government.
Detailed explanation-3: -François Dubois. Le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy. (The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre), vers 1572-1584. This painting represents the massacre of the Protestants that was triggered on 24 August 1572 in Paris and continued for several days: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bartholomew’s Day. On the night of Aug. 24/25, 1572, after a council at which the queen mother Catherine de Médicis, King Charles IX, the Duke d’Anjou (later Henry III), and the Guises were present, there occurred a massacre in which Coligny and almost all the leading Huguenots in Paris were slain.
Detailed explanation-5: -The St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.