セント・バーソロミューの虐殺、サン=バルテルミの虐殺、St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
1572年8月24日夜、摂政カトリーヌ・ド・メディチとギーズ公(duc de Guise:旧教側の貴族)が行った殺戮。
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a wave of mob violence against the Huguenots (French Protestants) starting on August 24, 1572, and lasting for several months. It marked a turning-point in the French Wars of Religion by stiffening Huguenot intransigence.-wikipedia.en
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