MASSACRE BARN, MUSEUM AND PROTESTANT TEMPLE

In the sixteenth century, Wassy is a very active shopping center. From the beginning of the Reform in 1517 many Wasseyens converted to Protestantism. In 1560, the city passed into the hands of the future queen of Scotland, Marie Stuart (1542-1587), wife of the king of France, François II and fervent Catholic. On March 1, 1562, the Wassy massacre initiated the wars of Religion that opposed Protestant and Catholic armies throughout Europe until the edict of Nantes (freedom of worship and tolerance) to be signed by Henri IV in 1598. It was in the nineteenth century that this temple was inaugurated in the barn whose door was forced by the Duke of Guise, embarrassed at the church by the songs of over a thousand unarmed Protestants, and even the massacre where more than a hundred men will be killed. The museum dates back to 1980. He took place in the temple and based on the past of the commune of Wassy tells the story of Protestantism since the arrival of the Reform until the separation of the state and the church in 1905. Several exhibitions are alternating: «History of the reformed Wassy Church», «Nantes Edict», «Revocation». They are accompanied by video editing.