Word: huguenots
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...Carnival in Romans Le Roy Ladurie provides a new aperture-and another compelling view. The place is the small city of Romans in southeastern France. The year is 1580. France is still recovering from the widespread slaughter of the Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572; skirmishes still go on between Catholic and Huguenot. Town and countryside are periodically ravaged by roving bands of brigand soldiers. Class bitterness over increasingly burdensome taxes breaks out in tax strikes, urban unrest and peasant revolt. It all coils up toward Mardi Gras, culminating in a bloody midnight clash...
...notables. The historian's only alternative source, a seemingly unbiased royal notary, makes it clear that Paumier was cold-bloodedly murdered. Judicial murder followed, as the surviving rebels were rounded up, tried, and in many cases executed. The rural leaguers were crushed several months later after joining with Huguenot forces. Royal troops killed more than 1,000 at Moirans alone - "a bloodbath," the author observes, "at least by the relatively humane standards of the time, as compared...