1572. The brutal confrontation between the Huguenots and Catholics reached its climax. On the night of August 24, Paris choked in blood - the French slaughtered the French. It is traditionally believed that St. Bartholomew's Night was provoked by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of the French king Charles IX, at the instigation of her Italian advisers like Albert de Gondi and Lodovico Gonzaga. The massacre occurred six days after the wedding of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry of Navarre, for which many of the richest and most prominent Huguenots gathered in predominantly Catholic Paris, and just two days after the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Admiral Gaspard Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots The author offers his own version of this tragic event. "Bartholomew's Night" is a direct continuation of the novel "Catherine de' Medici."