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Historical person
1550–1574
Charles IX of France was a historical figure associated with King of France. The record associates Charles IX of France with France. Charles IX of France belonged to the House of Valois.
Charles inherited the throne as a child and ruled under the strong influence of his mother, Catherine de’ Medici. His government alternated between attempts at religious compromise and renewed warfare. The decision-making behind the 1572 massacre remains debated, but royal orders enabled the killing to spread.
In G. A. Henty’s Saint Bartholomew's Eve, Historical figures including Catherine de' Medici, Charles IX of France, Gaspard II de Coligny, and Henry IV of France connect the fictional action directly to the documented events. In Kate Mosse’s The City of Tears, France, 1572.
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The Joubert Family Chronicles follows generations of a Huguenot family from the French Wars of Religion into the maritime and colonial worlds of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The Burning Chambers begins in Carcassonne in 1562; The City of Tears carries the family into the St Bartholomew’s Day…
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