Historical Events tagged with "politicalviolence"

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Politics & Government

Parisians Execute Armagnac Sympathizers

June 12th, 1418 606 years ago

On June 12, Parisians conducted a brutal massacre of those who sympathized with Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac. The violence spared no one, as foreign bankers, students, and faculty of the College of Navarre were subjected to horrific fates. This mass killing reflected the intense factional violence during the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, illuminating the schism within French society at the time.

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