Protestants Gallery

PROTESTANTS ROASTED

Henri II orders Calvinist protestants to be hanged and burned, lowering them on ropes into the fire, pulling them up again, and so on, until they are well and truly roasted Date: 1558

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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COLIGNY, Gaspar II de Chatillon, count of (1519-1572)

COLIGNY, Gaspar II de Chatillon, count of (1519-1572). French statesman and military man. The Three Coligny Brothers: Odet (1517-71) Cardinal of Chatillon, Gaspard II (1519-72) Leader of French Protestants and Admiral of France, and Francois, Lord of Andelot, who won fame at the Battles of Dreux and Jarnac. Drawing. FRANCE. ΌE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

© M.C.Esteban/Iberfoto/Mary Evans

Belgium - Centenary of Quatre Glorieuses in 1930

Photographic Montage postcard centering on The Congress Column in Brussels, Belgium. The card commemoration the centenary of the Quatre Glorieuses - the 4 days of revolution which overthrew the Domination of the Dutch Protestants and laid the foundation of Belgian Independence and the Belgian state and constitution (by the National Congress in 1830-1831). Date: 1930

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection