Michelade

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The Michelade is the name given to the massacre of 24 Catholic priests and monks by Protestant rioters in Nîmes on Michaelmas (29 September) 1567, following the Surprise of Meaux the previous day and in reprisals for their being oppressed and forbidden to practice their religion. With Meaux, it helped trigger the Second War of Religion.

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Fortune de France, Volume 2 En nos vertes années by Robert Merle : Part of the plot occurs during the Michelade, which is vividly described.
Nîmes, cité protestante by Raoul Lhermet