Western Civilization I / Unit 17 WC1 1604 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vassy to St. Bartholomew's Day, 1562 to 1572
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The idea
A Guise massacre at Vassy in fifteen sixty-two, a witness name, began the wars. The child king Charles IX, a witness name, and his mother Catherine de' Medici wavered; in fifteen seventy-two Catholics killed over two thousand Huguenots in Paris on St. Bartholomew's Day.
In practice
The anchor's twenty thousand more died across France; Navarre escaped.
Where people slip
The anchor's Charles X is Charles IX.
Your place on the trail
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