Paris Massacre of Armagnacs
1418
Burgundian partisans and the Paris mob systematically slaughtered several thousand Armagnac partisans locked in city prisons. Bodies floated in the Seine for days. The English conquest was weeks away. France's capital was already, self-destructively, making Henry V's victory inevitable through its own civil hatred. The massacre exposed the factional hatred consuming France during Charles VI's madness, reducing politics to rival gangs preferring murder.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.