St. Bartholomew's Day massacre published his "Discours contre Machievel" in 1576, which was printed in ten editions in three languages over the next four years. Gentillet held, quite wrongly according to Sydney Anglo, that Machiavelli's "books [were] held most dear and precious by our Italian and Italionized courtiers" (in the words of his first English translation), and so (in Anglo's paraphrase) "at the root of France's present degradation, which has culminated not only in the St Bartholemew massacre but the glee of its perverted admirers". In fact there is little trace of Machiavelli in French writings before the massacre, and not very much after,
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film) as he learns of their plans to kill him. Moran dies in prison, dropping a verbal clue to the crime: "Only Capone kills like that." No one is ever charged for the murders of St. Valentine's Day of 1929, as they either disappear going into hiding or are violently killed. "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" was not, as might be guessed, inspired by the 1959-63 ABC TV series, "The Untouchables", but is one of many motion pictures adapted from a CBS "Playhouse 90" episode; "Seven Against The Wall", broadcast on Playhouse 90 in December 1958, was also written by Harold