Christianity in the 16th century intermittent conflicts, known as the Wars of Religion. The civil wars were helped along by the sudden death of Henry II in 1559, which saw the beginning of a prolonged period of weakness for the French crown. and outrage became the defining characteristic of the time, illustrated at its most intense in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of August 1572, when the Catholic Church annihilated between 30,000 and 100,000 Huguenots across France. The wars only concluded when Henry IV, a former Huguenot, issued the Edict of Nantes, promising official toleration of the Protestant minority but under highly restricted conditions. Catholicism
St. Valentine's Day Massacre (EP) the same cover and track listing. It reached #5 in the UK Singles Charts. A bootleg "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" exists, a double 12" vinyl album with white labels. It contains recordings of Motörhead and Girlschool's sets from a 1981 Rockstage TV Special from The Theatre Royal in Nottingham. On 19 February 1981 the band played "Please Don't Touch" under the name Headgirl on the BBC TV "Top of the Pops" show, to support the release of the EP. They also performed the song on episode 62 of the German TV show "Musikladen", that was aired 4 April 1981. The