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priest and provost, who urged him to act and disperse the assembly. Heading out towards the meeting house he sent de la Brosse out ahead of him with two pages to announce his arrival. Inside the barn 500 worshippers sang psalms. Gaston attempted to gain entry to the barn but was resisted by those at the door; overpowering them he began to kill those nearest. The rest of Guise's company now rushed forward, trumpets blaring for the attack, with Guise himself either unwilling or unable to stop what had begun. Many worshippers fled through the hole in the roof, some others escaping were picked off by sharpshooters, those who fled down the streets were met by
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December. The Christmas service was attended by 900, making the town a Huguenot stronghold, with a higher percentage of Huguenots there than in Troyes or any other town in the region. In January 1562, Gravelles departed the town to return to his home, with a dedicated preacher named LĂ©onard Morel being sent out for the town from Calvin's base of
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a short distance away he heard the church bells of Wassy ringing, at a time in the day which precluded the possibility it was for Mass, enraging him. He summoned a council of his leading gentlemen to decide how to proceed, with the hardline faction of Jacques de la Montaigne and Jacques de la Brosse
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seizing it on 2 April and several days later released a manifesto which in justifying his rebellion cited the "cruel and horrible carnage wrought at Vassy, in the presence of M. de Guise". Several days later at the Calvinist Synod of Orleans he was proclaimed the protector of all Calvinist churches
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with whom the town had many economic links. In 1561, the community held their first officiated service inside the town in the house of a draper, with an attendance of around 120. As the community continued to grow beyond 500, the pastor of Troyes, Gravelles, performed the town's first baptism on 13
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it was presented as an act of pre-meditated violence on the part of the Catholic men who cried upon entering the temple, "let us kill them all". In Guise's recollections to Duke Christophe of WĂĽrttemberg, which formed the basis for the Catholic account, he reported that upon trying to inspect the
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Heading towards the church, Guise was further incensed to find that the location of the Protestant meeting house was both so close to the town church and in the castle district which constituted his property. He entered the church, convening with the town's leading opponents of Protestantism, the
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This growth was not, however, uncontested. News of public preaching reached Guise in November, and he dispatched several gendarmes to the area to snuff out the heresy, with little success. The town Curé Claude le Sain voiced his concerns about the public preaching to Antoinette, however, she was
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Having committed the massacre, and despite resulting instructions from Catherine to immediately come to court, Guise continued on to Paris, where the Catholic population, upon hearing the news of his actions, gave him a hero's welcome. Catherine, as regent, seeing the dangerous potential of the
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Stopping on the way at the family seat of Joinville, his mother Antoinette complained to him about the spread of heresy among their estates and urged him to act against it. Setting out from Joinville with 200 gendarmes the next day, Guise intended to stop next at his estates at
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leading the council towards intervening in the town. On the pretext of desiring to hear Mass in the town, Guise and his entire gendarme company entered Wassy by the south gate and headed for the church.
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magnates in the city, ordered him and the leader of the Huguenot party, the Prince of Condé, to vacate Paris, Guise however refused to do so. In response to this and the massacre, Condé marched on
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stationed at the cemetery. The pastor Morel was wounded and captured. After an hour the massacre ceased. Of the 500 parishioners, 50 lay dead, of whom five were women and one a child.
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In the opening months of 1562, France slipped increasingly close to civil war. Conscious of this and anxious to avoid a coalition of German princes in favour of the Huguenot
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in France in return for the Duke of WĂĽrttemberg's neutrality. This achieved, Guise began the return to Paris to which he had been called on 28 February by the kingdom's
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The town of Wassy at the time of the massacre was home to a population of roughly 3,000 and was a royal town. Despite being royal it possessed feudal ties to the
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News of the massacre spread quickly both around France and internationally, with tracts printed and woodcuts made for the illiterate from England to the
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which was located only a few miles away from Wassy. These connections would play a role in Guise's justification for his actions after the fact.
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of Paris resisted registration of the edict until 6 March 1562, it was not in force at the time of the Duke's entry into Wassy.
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temple he was resisted, and arquebuses were fired from the inside at his men, who had only swords to defend themselves.
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asserted that their actions were necessary to prevent themselves being massacred like the parishioners of Wassy.
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would help France avoid further chaos of the kind that had engulfed the south-west of the country. Because the
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over 100 of the town's Huguenots, throwing their corpses into the Seine. Further massacres occurred in
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The massacre inspired further religious violence in its immediate wake. On 12 April, the people of
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died of his wounds. In the Battle of Dreux (December 1562), Condé was captured by the crown and
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unwilling to take action without the support of the Duke and the region's provincial governor,
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The events surrounding the Massacre of Vassy were famously depicted in a series of forty
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Despite its small size, the town saw strong Huguenot activity beginning early. In 1533,
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Jean Ehrmann, "Massacre and Persecution Pictures in Sixteenth Century France" in
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Huguenots involved in the attempted or successful seizure of towns such as
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worshippers and citizens in an armed action by troops of
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French Wars of Religion
First; 1562–1563
Conflict in the provinces
Rouen
Vergt
Dreux
Orléans
Saint-Denis
Chartres
Jarnac
La Roche-l'Abeille
Poitiers
Orthez
Moncontour
Saint-Jean d'Angély
Arney-le-Duc
Mons
Sommières
Sancerre
La Rochelle
Dormans
La Charité-sur-Loire
Issoire
Brouage
La Fère
War of the Three Henrys

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