funny how gays situation takes such a large place in your debates !
hmmm can’t they just have a civil union ? like a paper that warrents to the left companion the right to remain in the common inhabitation when the other dies !
JFM, it’s your fest, one can see 
uh t’es un vieux tromblon rétrograde 
St Bartholomew’s Day followed years of constant harassing of Catholics wherever Protestants were the majority not to mention Admiral Coligy’s plans to betray his country.
Coligny was a great army amiral, bred at François 1er’s court, devoted to the crown of France, his education was perfect, for his infortune, he converted to Protestantism. This is the cause of his assassinatio, and that started st Barthelemy too : his correligionnaires wanted to revenge him, but Catherine Medicis, (of the machiavelan florentine family) knowing what would happen, decided that all the protestants of Paris would be eliminated
Now you’re saying that he planned to betray his country, thus France, uh, may be cuz he was helping the Huguenots to emigrate to the US and to Brazil, where ships were chartered in Le Havre and Dieppe harbours, or for calling for the help of Elisabeth of England for supporting them ?
Well though when the queen of England (too happy to settle into France again) send her troops, Coligny and Condé were fighting english incursions together. This story ended with the Hamptoncourt treaty, Catherine de Medicis got mad at these two warriors for this english incartade.
Though the only betray that should look logical for you, IMO, would be when Coligny was helping the Dutch protestants to free from Spain suzeranity.
These times were confuse, each great military chief wanted to gain more influence and territory, to impose their beliefs, to the damn of royalty.
England wasn’t spared, where catholics tried to get some intervention from spanish and french catholics too.
This is a fact that St Barthelemy calmed down the fightings, but it’s only when Henri IV of Navarre, a protestant, that married Margot, Catherine de Medicis’s daughter, that peace really settled, Henri IV converted conveniently to catholiscism for becoming king of France, and managed with the Edit de Nantes that catholics and protestants could live again together.
