Ms Diefendorf was fairly accurate on the events surrounding the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. She seems to miss the point that one side had the power and used it to anilate the other having actually used false pretenses to get the leaders of the Huguenots to be in one place. This act plus the elimination of the Catholics during the French Revolution made France a secular humanist nation. The collusion of church and State never comes to a good end.

Biblical Christians have endured many hard times and persecution, and we will continue to endure and survive any persecution and hard times in the future

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I have learned of having some ancestry to the Huguenots. So I have been watching a lot of programs and lectures on this subject. I have always loved learning about various times and events in history... but knew next to nothing about the Huguenots. So I am getting quite an education! Thank you!

I am descendant of Huguenots who fled France to Netherlands then London where they got ships to take them to Virginia and there they founded Manakintown.

A king intent on creating a massacre might well fire indiscriminately into a crowd containing his own soldiers. Similar tactics were used when Western backed insurgents fired randomly at police and demonstrators in Syria to inflame both sides who naturally thought the other side was targeting them. To assume a King would care about individual members of his own army is rather naive.

how does she not say anything about cathine's family was a pope that was killed when he was selling indulgences???????? this lady forgot to set the scene about that as she should!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Catharine, her son Henri and the royal family were Black Magick Occultist.......

For more details, the great work by E. G. White, The Great Controversy. The chapter on, " The Bible and The French Revolution."

According to a letter Duke Henri D'Énghien I, wrote to Cardinal Charles Bourbon in 1572, rumors had it that either an officer under de Guise's command Charles de Maurevert shot at Coligny, or it was the first Jacques Beaumont d'Vienne, ex-lover of Margot of Valois, leader of the original garde of forty five and later one of the main bodyguards of Henri IV, who blamed Coligny for the end of his liaison with Margot as a direct result of her engagement to Henri of Navarre. He also accused both de Medici and her son the then King Charles IX Beaumont was later quoted as saying, if i had shot him, he'd been dead. He was a veteran of Arques and Ivry [1590] and was instrumental in the founding of Henri Iv's mounted Carabins, the later garde musketeers. of LOUIS XIII. also in 1572 there were no muskets but the older carabins or arquebuses [shorter than a musket]. Muskets were not in use or invented until the early 17th century [ca 1615-20].

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Thank you for making these public.

Such a good and informative presentation!!

Thank you so much for posting this !! I loved every second!!! Very kind of you to share with those of us who can not attend college!!!! God Bless You and Yours

Great Pleasure... How I wish we could have a virtual library...

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thank you. every part of history helps people potentially see and therofore learn about ourselves. Then hopefully we can do better. not to better another but to better ourselves.

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Interesting lecture that gives a good refresh on political forces of Bartholomew massacre. Limited religious freedom edict by Catherine de Medici was a catalyst of the event. To say that by the end of almost 50 years of the religious wars, the status of religious freedom/ practice was ironically exactly the same as she granted would be rather superficial. The circumstances of original edict is that she never intended to fulfill it - it was appeasement in complicated triangle of Geases - weaken royal power due to her regency status- considerable feudal and prominent military figures that went to the Protestant side as an opposition to the existed power. Overall, it was a Trojan horse. The importance of Huguenots movement was not in numbers but in complete change of the religion landscape. It was minority to reckon with. And as usual the power selected extermination. What make it really gruesome - to get the key figures in one place they used the wedding that suppose to seal the piece. And when the murders started, it was complete elimination of the families - from old people to kids. it wasn’t only Coligny who got shot at night, it’s was gutting of civil population brutally and with gusto - after all the faith needs to be restored in purity.

With such a long intro, I would be late on purpose..