Information about Wassy
History
On March 1, 1562, a faction of the Catholic Francis, Duke of Guise attacked a Huguenot service in Wassy, marking the start of the First War of Religion in France.External links
- Personal website about Wassy (in French)
- Protestant Museum of the Barn of Wassy (in French)
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Haute-Marne
Coat of arms of the Haute-Marne department
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Department number: 52
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Prefecture: Chaumont
Subprefectures: Langres
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Coat of arms of the Haute-Marne department
Location
Administration
Department number: 52
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Prefecture: Chaumont
Subprefectures: Langres
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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"La Marseillaise"
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March 1 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Francis II, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Duke of Aumale (February 17, 1519 – February 24, 1563), called Balafré ("the scarred"), was a French soldier and politician.
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From the 16th to the 18th century the name Huguenot was applied to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, historically known as the French Calvinists.
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The French Wars of Religion, (1562 to 1598) were a series of conflicts in France fought between Catholics and Huguenots (Protestants) from the middle of the sixteenth century to the Edict of Nantes in 1598, including civil infighting as well as military operations.
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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