These riots were part of the French Wars of Religion, fought between French Roman Catholics and Calvinist Huguenots. Riots and battles took place all across the Kingdom of France from 1562 and 1598, but much of the mob violence was concentrated in Paris, where the majority of the population was Catholic, including the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. During the riots (and many later revolutionary scraps in Paris, such as the June Rebellion, around which Victor Hugo's Les MisΓ©rables is centered), barrels were filled with stones and dirt and set up in the streets of Paris to form makeshift blockades and ramparts.
While "barricade" came to English via the Middle French barricade, from the Spanish barricada (from barrica "barrel"), the English word "barrel" is directly from the Old French baril "barrel, cask, vat." [Edit: Etymonline (my source) is probably incorrect that "barricade" moved from Spanish to Frenchβit's more likely that the opposite is true. See /u/viktorbir's comment here for a detailed breakdown and better sources.]
Interestingly, "barricade" and "barrel" do not appear to be directly related to "barrier," which is from the Old French barriere, meaning "obstacle, gatekeeper," from barre "bar," originally from the Vulgar Latin *barra, "bar, barrier, rod." According to Wiktionary:
>An attempt to link baril to Old French barre⦠via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically.
Instead, the more plausible source of "barrel" is Frankish or Gothic (*baril or *beril), originally from Proto-Germanic *barilaz (βbarrel, jug, containerβ).
I was dumb enough to convert to protestantism too late to receive a center of reformation and too early to have humanism because I failed to realize France has a religious civil war disaster. I feel like every 5 seconds my stability is getting lowered and Rebels are spawning. Anyway I can get this to calm down? I know how to get it to go away- the parameters are self explanatory- but do any of you know any good ways to convert 800 provinces worth of development pretty quickly? I've given subjects a lot of my land to help speed along the process as well as issue religious edicts in my states. Any of you got any other tips?
They have been going for for 30 years!
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I'm interested in reading something more in-depth than wikipedia articles, say a book or two that covers the period at a collegiate level (I don't have a degree but I've enjoyed reading door-stoppers on Patton and the Duke-Count of Olivares)
I got the french wars of religion disaster. Is there anyway to end this? I'm just watching my provinces get converted to Protestant and Reformed one by one. I have to wait 30+ years for 100% religious zeal to wear off. Plus the constant heretic rebellions has my army busy to do anything else. I effectively can't do anything for a big chunk of this game and am ready to just rage quit. You guys got any advice?
Can anyone recommend a few good books on the early part (before 1600) of the French Calvinist/Catholic conflicts? I'm especially interested in:
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Catholic and Hougenout beliefs and daily life in comparison to each other
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Catherine de Medici and her time as regent
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An easy timeline or overview of the conflicts - major turning points, battles, political events etc. - still before 1600.
Thanks in advance!
Does this not exist in game anymore or am I missing something? In most of my games I have seen France get besieged by religious rebels that come from this event. Now with the new disasters and the centers of reformations that came I have hardly ever seen France experience this since they the centers can't convert fast enough for the French to even have to worry about not converting a province fast enough. Honestly most of the French events don't seem to fire for me or the AI it seems anymore.
