About the book: year / On the night of August 24, 1572, on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, with the blessing of Pope Gregory XIII, a massacre of Protestant Huguenots took place in Paris. This night began to be called St. Bartholomew's Night... "Chronicle of the Times of Charles IX" - Merimee's brilliant novel, in which subtle knowledge of the era becomes an excellent frame for a romantic plot in the best sense about brotherhood and love in bloody times.