François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the onl
Posthumous portrait by Théodore Chassériau (1836).
Château Verteuil, residence of La Rochefoucauld in Poitou-Charentes
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre 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. Traditionally
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
…seventeenth-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. His great-grandfather François III, de la Rochefoucauld, was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, being a Huguenot. François de La Rochefoucauld was born on September 15, 1613, at Rue des Petits Champs (today in Paris's 1st arrondissement). La…
Painting by François Dubois, a Huguenot painter who fled France after the massacre. Although it is not known whether Dubois witnessed the event, he depicts Admiral Coligny's body hanging out of a window at the rear to the right. To the left rear, Catherine de' Medici is shown emerging from the Louvre Palace to inspect a heap of bodies.
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the leader of the Huguenots
Charles IX of France, who was 22 years old in August 1572, by François Clouet.
This popular print by Frans Hogenberg shows the attempted assassination of Coligny at left, his subsequent murder at right, and scenes of the general massacre in the streets.