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Bartholomew night
Paris
Phraseologism: Bartholomew night.
Meaning: About the cruel (sudden) massacre.
Origin: Massacre of French Protestants in Paris on August 24, 1572 on the night of St. Bartholomew's Day (according to the Catholic calendar). The reprisal against the supporters of the Reformation was prepared by the Catholics ahead of time and was timed to coincide with the wedding of the sister of the King of France. The leaders of the Protestant Church were invited to Paris for this celebration, and the houses where the Protestants lived were marked with white crosses. At the ringing of the alarm bell, reprisals began at night: the “papists” broke into houses and killed their opponents right in their beds, sparing neither children nor women. After Paris, massacres began in other cities of France: more than 30 people were killed in two weeks. In memory of this beating of "heretics", the Pope ordered a commemorative medal to be knocked out and a festive illumination to be arranged in Rome.
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Enemy of the people.
Meaning:
An indication of the events and spirit of the 1930s, when in the Stalinist USSR such a label was attached to the victims of political repression, to everyone who, for one reason or another, was suspected of being unreliable.
Origin:
The expression is first found in ancient Rome in the form of an enemy of the Roman people. It was very popular during the years of the French Revolution (along with the concept opposite in meaning - "friend of the people"). In Russia, this phrase entered into wide circulation after the February Revolution of 1917, and in the Civil War that followed the October Revolution, it was equally common on both sides of the front, both among the "Reds" and the "Whites". Also known is the play by the Norwegian playwright G. Ibsen "The Enemy of the People". |
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