Today, 438 years ago, the Huguenots (French Protestants) were massacred on the Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle, by order of Catherine de Médicis.
Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots is loosely based on that event.
Below is an aria sung by the unforgettable Joan Sutherland, in the role of Marguerite de Valois (the wife of Henri of Navarre, the future King Henri IV of France):
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