Journée des Barricades

A Catholic revolt in Paris on 12 May 1588 during the French Wars of Religion. Increasingly anxious about the threat from Huguenot force, and weary of the indecisiveness of Henry III, Catholic Parisians invited Duke Henri of Guise to come to their aid, which he did in defiance of the king's ban against his entering Paris. Expecting an attack, the Parisians then erected barricades and the king fled to Chartres. Unable to recover his position, Henry III decided that Guise and his brother should be assassinated, a plan carried out in December that year.