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Nègrepelisse massacre

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These traitors and rebels suffered all the chastisement that the mind of man might imagine to punish crime and rebellion, and those who escaped the fire and the blood ended their lives on gibbets as an example and a horror to those who would wish to imitate them. I have never heard of or seen a more
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After a short siege the town was captured by assault, and all the inhabitants that the soldiers encountered were put to the sword, without distinction of age or sex, to a total of about 800. According to one source, "all the women and girls were raped and massacred". The town was then looted and
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The Huguenot garrison that had attempted to hold out in the town's citadel were obliged to surrender the next day, and all the men were hanged. The anonymous author of a contemporary report celebrating the massacre as a royal victory and a just punishment of rebels remarked that:
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horrible spectacle than this, for we marched over the bodies of the dead stretched naked and mutilated in the streets, which would touch the hardest of hearts.
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deliberately burned to the ground. This severe treatment was in retaliation for the alleged massacre of a royal regiment left in garrison in the city by the
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I command you to give no quarter to any man, because they have irritated me, and shall be served as they treated the others.
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Brian Sandberg, "'Generous Amazons Came to the Breach': Besieged Women in the French Wars of Religion", in
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Le grand et juste chastiment des rebelles de Negrepelisse les 10 et 11 juin 1622
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was a massacre committed on 10 and 11 June 1622 by the
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Military history of Occitania (administrative region)
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Huguenot rebellions

Nègrepelisse
44°04′34″N 1°31′19″E / 44.076°N 1.522°E / 44.076; 1.522
Kingdom of France
Huguenot
Louis XIII
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Huguenot rebellions
Saumur
Saint-Jean-d'Angély
La Rochelle
Montauban
Royan
Saint-Foix
Nègrepelisse
Saint-Antonin
Montpellier
Treaty of Montpellier
Saint-Martin-de-Ré
Blavet
Ré island
Treaty of Paris
Saint-Martin-de-Ré
Pont du Feneau
La Rochelle
Privas

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