The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre began soon after Protestant Henri of Navarre wed Catholic Marguerite of Valois. More than 400 years later, the prospect of a cross-confessional marriage once again ...

A deeper understanding of French Protestantism. In much of the English-speaking world, the Reformation in France is relatively unknown. The Affair of the Placards, Saint Bartholomew’s Day, the Edict ...

Being a composer could be a dangerous business during the Reformation. The first composer on this disc, Claude Goudimel, died in the St Bartholomew’s Day massacres in Lyons in 1572, the year when ...

Owen Stanwood, assistant history professor at Boston College, spoke Friday to students about the Huguenots — French Protestants who fled France in the 16th and 17th centuries due to religious ...

Analysis: about 10,000 Huguenots are thought to have come to Ireland in the late 17th century fleeing religious persecution in France You may have passed by the Huguenot cemetery in Dublin or you may ...

In 1685, hundreds of thousands of Huguenots were forced to flee France attempting to seek refuge in other countries. Anna Barton Luther College sophomore of Eagan, Minnesota, researched the lives of ...

Did you know that one in six of us (myself included) are descended from the Huguenots? These remarkable people — Protestants fleeing persecution in France in the 16th-18th centuries — originated the ...

An urban holocaust: the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, 1572 Credit: Photo: Prisma / UIG / Rex Features In Paris, in the early hours of August 24, 1572, bells rang to signal the beginning of a ...

It's amazing to her how "you get on the side roads in Lancaster County and you see things, historic things," Deb Oesch, of Lititz, said. "You live here all your life, but then you see old houses from ...