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France is torn apart
by the Wars of Religion.
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Catholics and Protestants
have been fighting for years.
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King Charles lX always let his mother,
Catherine de Medici, rule.
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But today the Protestant leader,
Admiral Coligny, has the King's trust:
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the entire country might
switch over to the new religion.
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To quench the hatred, Catherine
sets up an alliance for peace:
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she marries her daughter Margot
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to Henri of Navarre,
her Protestant cousin.
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A political scheme
that everybody sees through.
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But Coligny wants war with
Catholic Spain. He must be stopped.
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August 18. A heat wave
has fallen over Paris.
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Thousands of Protestants
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have come for the wedding.
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They are invading the inns
and the streets.
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Their dark clothes and looks
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provoke the Parisians,
already on the verge of rebellion.
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Margot's wedding,
a symbol of peace and reconciliation,
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will be used to set off the greatest
massacre in the history of France.
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lt's up there.
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Ten coins for the room
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and two for the horse.
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Ten coins for that!