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A massive wave of violence carried out by Catholic rioters against France's Huguenot (Protestant) population during the French Wars of Religion. The violence had started in Paris, where, in particular, the French Huguenot aristocratic population had gathered to attend the wedding of the reigning king Charles IX's sister Margaret to protestant king Henry III of Navarre (later Henry IV of France), and subsequently spread outwards across France.
