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Screenshot 2026-08-24 at 22-41-54 File Le Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy

1572: My Ancestors Were Massacred in Paris

This is the 454th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when the French king and Pope ordered Catholics to slaughter tens of thousands of Protestants (known as Huguenots) in Paris and elsewhere in France. That was the largest religious massacre in Europe in the 1500s. Queen Margot, a 1994 French film, captures some of […]

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Lessons from a Massacre Committed 450 Years Ago

Lessons from a Massacre Committed 450 Years Ago  by James Bovard   August 25, 2022 On this day in 1572, French Catholics slaughtered thirty thousand Protestants (known as Huguenots) in the streets of Paris. The French king and the pope helped organize the the biggest religious massacre in Europe in the 1500s. Roughly half the Bovards […]

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Obama Gets Bum Rap on Paris

Lots of folks are hammering Obama for not going to Paris for the march this past weekend. I think he is getting a bum rap. There was no excuse for the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. But the event turned into a Parade of Political Hypocrites with a vanload of repressive politicians hijacking the […]

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