"beginning at paris, the french soldiers and the roman catholic clergy fell upon the unarmed people, and blood flowed like a river throughout the entire country. men, women, and children fell in heaps before the mobs and the bloodthirsty troops."—françois dubois, saint bartholomew's day, 1592. the events described in this eyewitness account were the result of the a. thirty years' war. b. french persecution of huguenots. c. reign of terror. d. revocation of the edict of nantes.

A) Thirty years war

he Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe. One of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague. Casualties were overwhelmingly and disproportionately inhabitants of the Holy Roman Empire, most of the rest being battle deaths from various foreign armies.

no every country is held to the same degree as others just some member countries such as the usa and germany are more economically sound so the need to show there support to all others