title: The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State
author:  Arlette Jouanna 
description: <br />Arlette Jouanna is one of the finest historians writing about early modern France today, but apart from academic specialists of the period, she is virtually unknown in the Anglophone world because virtually none of her work has previously been translated into English. Thus, the recent publication by the Manchester University Press of an English translation of her book, The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, is a real cause for celebration. Not only will this book bring her scholarship to a much wider leadership around the globe, but it will also help resolve one of the most difficult tasks for all historians of early modern France: how to explain satisfactorily the events that made up the St. Bartholomew's Day massacres in 1572.
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
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  Rafael Sabatini  
  PREFACE  
  [I. THE NIGHT OF HOLYROOD. The Murder of David Rizzio
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  [II. THE NIGHT OF KIRK O' FIELD. The Murder of Darnley
  ](The%20Historical%20Nights%27%20Entertai_split_001.html#filepos55462)  
  [III. THE NIGHT OF BETRAYAL. Antonio Perez and Philip II of Spain
  ](The%20Historical%20Nights%27%20Entertai_split_002.html#filepos95403)  
  [IV. THE NIGHT OF CHARITY. The Case Of The Lady Alice Lisle
  ](The%20Historical%20Nights%27%20Entertai_split_002.html#filepos220314)  
  [V. THE NIGHT OF MASSACRE. The Story of the Saint Bartholomew
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  [VI. THE NIGHT OF WITCHCRAFT. Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan
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  [VII. THE NIGHT OF GEMS. The Affaire of the Queen's Necklace
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