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EL BOLETÍN NUMISMÁTICO Marzo 2020 SNM

2020, MEDALLA “LA TRAGEDIA DEL DÍA DE SAN BARTOLOME”

Abstract

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.