The memorial garden of St. Bartholomew’s Day was inaugurated this Friday September 16, 2022, by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for the 450th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. It is located in the Louvre area, on rue de l’Amiral-de-Coligny. The street is already a tribute to this tragic event for this massacre – that killed over 10,000 people on August 14, 1572 – was trigged by the death – a couple of days earlier – of admiral Gaspard de Coligny, victim of a terror attack as he was exiting the Louvre.
Émouvante inauguration du jardin mémorial de la Saint-Barthélemy au cœur de Paris. 450 ans après, ce lieu n'a jamais été aussi nécessaire. Pour transmettre la mémoire de ce massacre où 10000 protestants ont péri partout en France. Pour rappeler le risque de la violence politique. pic.twitter.com/CsoF7YfYhk
— Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) September 16, 2022
Tweet reads: “Moving inauguration of the St. Bartholomew’s Day memorial garden in the heart of Paris. 450 years later, the place has never been as necessary. To pass on the memory of this massacre where 10,000 Protestants perished in France. To remind the risk of political violence.”
In 1889, an admiral Coligny monument was inaugurated rue de Rivoli, but now, a new place of remembrance was erected to never forget one of the bloodiest episodes of the history of Paris.
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