This is perhaps the most serious crisis suffered by France under the Old Regime. From 1562 to 1598, no less than eight wars bloodied the country, leaving at the end of the century a less populated country of one to two million inhabitants between massacres, epidemics and famines. From the early death of François II in 1559 at the origin of the first conflict between Catholics and Protestants until the assassination of Henri IV in 1610, the exhibition at the Musée de l’Armée in Paris reveals half – century of violence.
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The Wars of Religion in France, 1559-1610: the dark side of the Renaissance
