The Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre of the Huguenots in Paris, 24 August 1572. Admiral Coligny wounded by a musketeer at left, and finally stabbed in his hotel bed on rue Bethisy by Besme and defenestrated at right. Women and children slaughtered in the streets. From a German print by Frans Hogenberg. Massacre de la Saint Barthelemy, a Paris. woodcut, engraving, Etienne Huyot, Jules Huyot, Paul Lacroix, La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a lEpoque de la Renaissance, Military, Religious, Life, Middle Ages, Renaissance, costume, custom, Christianity, society, religion,.