Între delimitare și asumare: poziția regelui Carol al IX-lea față de Masacrul de Sfântul Bartolomeu
Between delimitation and acceptance: King Charles IX's position on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew

Summary/Abstract: On August 24th, 1572, around 3:00 AM, the bells of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois church in Paris gave the signal to one of the most famous events of the first period of the French Protestantism: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew, in which the Admiral Gaspar II of Coligny-Châtillon (1519-1572), the Chief of the Huguenot party, along with other 2.000 fellow co-religionaries lost their lives. The position of king Charles IX (1550-1574) regarding these killings is illustrated in four declarations, issued on August 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th, in which the monarch denied at first any implications in the event, but later concluded that he had ordered it. This paper analyses these four declarations, in order to give a hint on the motives that led to the change of attitude in the king’s discourse.

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