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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