This image is a painting by Francois Dubois and depicts the Bartholomew Day Massacre. The massacre in Paris on August 24/25 in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.

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Photo credit: © Ivy Close Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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