The St Barts day massacre was like 250 year before the French Revolution. The 15th and 16th centuries had all of Europe embroiled in some form of religious war and persecution.
I make no claim to a perfect knowledge, but as I u understand it in almost every case the Catholics were the violent aggressors in Europe, especially in the Netherlands... the Spanish Fury...
Ever read Göethe’s play "Egmont"? Set in the Spanish Netherlands. Beethoven wrote an overture for the play.
Remember a particular line from the play. “It is the plan that all common men should be armed”.
Now I'm gonna hear Dusty Rhoads' intro music all day! Then it somehow morphs into Sammy Hagar's I Can't Drive 55.
