but before that there was the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre Aug 24, 1572 when the French king and the Catholic Church murdered tens of thousands of Huguenots in Paris and New Rochelle...
The siege on New Rochelle by the French king and Cardinal Richelieu was against the French Protestants also...
explaining why my Huguenot ancestors headed for Virginia.
You know, I have heard it said that St Bart’s day is one of the reasons for the revolution. They killed some of France’s best and they never recovered from it. Most of these protestants were artisans, thinkers, moral advocates and so on. With them gone, there was nothing to restrain the coming storm.