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(en) France, Monde Libertaire - History Pages No. 126: The Elusive History (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:25:34 +0300
More than 450 years ago, Catholics massacred Protestants on the night of
August 24, 1572, marking one of the central points in the Wars of
Religion, which had ravaged the country for thirty years. The historian
has published a significant number of works on the subject since the
early 1990s. This book offers a historical overview, first by revisiting
its origins, but above all by putting into perspective the different
interpretations of this foundational event. It emphasizes the role of
words, which fueled the crime; actions followed words and were
legitimized by those in power. It shows how the monarchy, Charles IX and
Catherine de Medici, decided to eliminate the Protestant leaders, and
then how the Catholic Parisians decided to eliminate their neighbor,
believing they had to purify the city of its "impure" elements. While
the author emphasizes the unleashing of violence by those in power, he
assigns moral responsibility for the crime to religion in its strictest
form.
He also presents this massacre as a precursor to contemporary crime,
seeing in mass murders, such as pogroms, the continuation of this
foundational crime.
This extensive investigation also raises questions about the processes
of submission to authority and voluntary servitude.
Denis Crouzet
The Elusive History
An Endless St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Champ Vallon 2026 564 pp. EUR29
https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8982
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