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French Huguenot Protestants were viciously persecuted by Catholics in 16th-17th century France. A century later during t French Revolution, vicious anti-clericalism incited the French to seize and deface Church property and massacre thousands of priests. Did anyone reflect on this/see it as ironic?

by /u/Elphinstone1842 in /r/AskHistorians

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