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French Wars of Religion, 16th century, (1587), 1877. Violence by French Huguenots, (French Calvinist Protestants) against Catholics. On the right: noblewoman from Montbrun (Charente, France) being tortured by soldiers whom she had generously welcomed. Left ( below): Jean Arnould, the king's prosecutor in Angoulême, is strangled after having been mutilated several times. On the left ( above): the widow of the public prosecutor of the town's criminal court is dragged by her hair through the streets. After "Theatrum Crudelitatum Nostri Temporis", 1587. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance", Paris, 1877.