#Saint Batholomew&039;s Day Massacre

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Paris: A Blackened Romance?

The 23-24th of August 1572 saw around 3000 people killed in Paris, a city which is now regarded as the romantic capital of Europe, but in reality has seen more mass bloodshed than many European cities, whether that be in the execution of Marie Antoinette at the Place de la Revolution in 1793, Napoleon’s bloody suppression of a royalist uprising close to the Louvre in 1795, or the massacre…