List of massacres in France
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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in France (numbers may be approximate):
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Celtic Gaul
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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1st Cenabum massacre | Template:Dts | Cenabum | Template:HsUnknown | Carnutes | Carnutes massacre Roman civilians and soldiers |
2nd Cenabum massacre | Template:Dts | Cenabum | Template:HsUnknown | Roman army | Julius Caesar's soldiers massacre the population of Cenabum. |
Siege of Avaricum | Template:Dts | Avaricum | Template:Hs39,200 | Roman army | Julius Caesar's soldiers massacre the population of Avaricum. |
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Roman Gaul
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Sack of Metz | Template:Dts | Metz | Template:HsUnknown | Huns | City sacked and burned and all inhabitants killed by Hun troops under Attila |
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Merovingian Francia
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Vienne massacre | Template:Dts | Vienne | Template:HsUnknown | Forces of Gundobad and Godegisel | Townspeople slaughtered during battle between competing Burgundian factions. Hostile Gallo-Roman senators and Godegisel's supporters executed by Gundobad's troops. |
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges massacre | Template:Dts | Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges | Template:HsUnknown | Kingdom of Orléans | All inhabitants, including priests, put to the sword by royal troops of Guntram |
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Carolingian Francia
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Siege of Clermont (761) | Template:Dts | Clermont | Template:HsUnknown | Royal Frankish Army | Men, women and children burned alive by Frankish army of King Pepin the Short.Template:Sfn |
Sack of Nantes | Template:Dts | Nantes | Template:HsUnknown | Vikings | Town population and monks massacred and burned alive in a church by raiding Vikings. Others captured as slaves. |
Marmoutier massacre | Template:Dts | Marmoutier Abbey | Template:Hs126 | Vikings | 126 monks killed by Vikings. 20 survivors escaped. |
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Capetian France
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Orléans heresy | Template:Dts | Orléans | Template:Hs10–20 | Robert II the Pious | 10–20 priests, nuns and lay people burned at the stake on orders of King Robert II of France |
Rouen massacre | Template:Dts | Rouen | Unknown | Crusaders | Jews of Rouen rounded up in the synagogue and systematically massacred by Crusaders |
Tournai-sur-Dive massacre | Template:Dts | Tournai-sur-Dive | Template:Hs45 | Troops of Robert of Bellême | 45 people burned alive in a church by forces of Robert of Bellême |
Bougy-sur-Risle massacre | Template:Dts | Romilly-la-Puthenaye | Unknown | Troops of Waleran and Robert de Beaumont | Men and women burned alive in a church by forces of Waleran and Robert de Beaumont |
Vitry massacre | Template:Dts | Vitry-en-Perthois | Template:Hs1,300 | Royal Army | 1,300 people burned alive in a church by forces of King Louis VII of France |
Ham massacre | Template:Dts | Ham | Template:Hs150 | Unknown | 150 Jews massacred |
Vézelay massacre | Template:Dts | Vézelay | Template:Hs7 | Abbot of Vézelay | Seven Burgundian Cathars burned at the stake |
Blois massacre | Template:Dts | Blois | Template:Hs31 | Soldiers of Theobald V, Count of Blois | 31 Jews, including 17 women, locked in and burned alive in a house by Theobald V, Count of Blois on accusations of blood libel |
Bray-sur-Seine massacre | Template:Dts | Bray-sur-Seine | Template:Hs80 | Royal Army | 80 Jews burned by French troops, acting on command of King Philip II of France |
Massacre at Béziers | Template:Dts | Béziers | Template:Hs20,000 | Crusaders | First major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.Template:Sfn |
Siege of Minerve | Template:Dts | Minerve | Template:Hs140 | Crusaders | Cathars burned at the stake by Crusaders. |
Alayrac massacre | Template:Dts | Alayrac | Unknown | Crusaders | Stronghold garrison captured and massacred by Crusaders |
Lavaur massacre | Template:Dts | Lavaur | Template:Hs480 | Crusaders | 80 knights hanged and stabbed to death, 400 Cathars burned by Crusaders |
Les Cassés massacre | Template:Dts | Les Cassés | Template:Hs60–94 | Crusaders | 60–94 Cathars burned alive by Simon de Montfort's Crusaders |
Saint Marcel massacre | Template:Dts | Saint–Marcel | Template:Hs28 | Crusaders | 28 male civilians killed or drowned by Crusaders |
Lavelanet massacre | Template:Dts | Lavelanet | Unknown | Crusaders | Inhabitants put to the sword by Crusader forces under Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon |
Moissac massacre | Template:Dts | Moissac | Template:Hs300 | Crusaders | 300 garrison soldiers executed without trial by Crusaders |
Pujol massacre | Template:Dts | Sainte-Foy-d'Aigrefeuille | Template:Hs60 | Toulousain militia | 60 Crusaders killed in Pujol Castle by mob of soldiers under Roger-Bernard |
Casseneuil massacre | Template:Dts | Casseneuil | Unknown | Crusaders | Population and garrison massacred |
Massacre at Marmande | Template:Dts | Marmande | Template:Hs5,000 | Royal Army | All men, women and children in the town killed with swords and the town razed and burned to the ground by royal army under prince Louis.Template:Sfn |
Labécède massacre | Template:Dts | Labécède | Unknown | Crusaders | Men killed and Cathar Perfect burnt to death by Crusader forces of Humbert V de Beaujeu |
Moissac massacre | Template:Dts | Moissac | Template:Hs210 | Papal Inquisition | 210 Cathars burned at the stake by Inquisitors William Arnald and Peter Seila |
Jewish massacres | Template:Dts | Poitou, Anjou and Brittany | Template:Hs2,500–3,000 | Crusaders | Jews killed by Crusaders |
Montwimer massacre | Template:Dts | Montwimer | Template:Hs183 | Papal Inquisition/Crusaders | 183 Cathars burned at the stake by Robert le Bougre and Thibaut IV of Champagne |
Carcassonne massacre | Template:Dts | Carcassonne | Template:Hs33 | Army of Raymond II Trencavel | 33 clerics massacred by forces of Trencavel after being promised safe passage from the besieged city. |
Avignonet massacre | Template:Dts | Avignonet | Template:Hs11 | Cathars | Two Inquisitors and their nine followers massacred in their sleep by Cathar rebels under Pierre-Roger de Mirepoix |
Siege of Montségur | Template:Dts | Château de Montségur | Template:Hs210–215 | Royal Army | Cathars burned in a bonfire by the Royal Army. |
Agen massacre | Template:Dts | Agen | Template:Hs80 | Papal Inquisition | 80 heretics burned at the stake |
Dijon massacre | Template:Dts | Dijon | Template:Hs139 | Shepherd Crusaders | 139 Jews massacred |
Troyes massacre | Template:Dts | Troyes | Template:Hs13 | Papal Inquisition | 13 Jews burned at the stake by the Inquisition, supported by King Philip IV of France |
Castelsarrasin massacre | Template:Dts | Castelsarrasin | Template:Hs152 | Shepherd Crusaders | 152 Jews massacred by Pastoureaux |
Toulouse massacre | Template:Dts | Toulouse | Template:Hs115–150 | Shepherd Crusaders | 115–150 Jews massacred by Pastoureaux |
Vitry massacre | Template:Dts | Vitry-en-Perthois | Template:Hs77 | Unknown | 77 Jews massacred during the 1321 leper scare. Forty Jews imprisoned and committed mass suicide. |
Chinon massacre | Template:Dts | Chinon | Template:Hs120–160 | Royal authorities | 120–160 Jews burned at the stake on accusation of well poisoning |
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Valois France
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Battle of Caen (1346) | Template:Dts | Caen | Template:Hs2,500–3,000 | English Army | Town sacked and population massacred by the English under King Edward III of England |
Toulon massacre | Template:Dts | Toulon | Template:Hs40 | Mob | Jewish community of Toulon killed as part of the Black Death Jewish persecutions |
Jacquerie | Template:Dts | Northern France | Template:Hs20,000 | Aristocracy and nobility | Peasant Jacquerie rebels exterminated by nobles |
Siege of Limoges | Template:Dts | Limoges | Template:Hs200–400 | English Army | Town sacked and hundreds of civilians killed by the English under Edward the Black PrinceTemplate:Sfn |
Maillotins Revolt | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs30 | Maillotins | 30 people, including 16 Jews, killed by mobTemplate:Sfn |
Siege of Caen | Template:Dts | Caen | Template:Hs2,000 | English Army | 2,000 men, women and children rounded up in the marketplace and killed by English soldiers under King Henry V of England. Population plundered and raped. |
Paris massacres | Template:Dts Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs1,000–5,000 | Parisian mob | Armagnacs slaughtered by Parisian mob |
Sézanne massacre | Template:Dts | Sézanne | Unknown | English Army | Most inhabitants of the town massacred by the English under Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. Women raped, fortifications razed, town looted and burned. 178 survivors. |
Vicques massacre | Template:Dts | Vicques | Unknown | Mercenaries in English pay | Soldiers in English pay massacre a large number of Normans |
Lihons massacre | Template:Dts | Lihons | Template:Hs300 | English Army | 300 men, women and children burned alive in a church by English forces of John Talbot. |
Nesle massacre | Template:Dts | Nesle | Unknown | Burgundian Army | Entire population of Nesle slaughtered and town razed to the ground by Burgundian Army under Duke Charles the Bold |
Lectoure massacre | Template:Dts | Lectoure | Unknown | Royal Army | Population massacred and city looted, burned and methodically razed to the ground by royal troops under Cardinal Jean Jouffroy. Defeat of the house of Armagnac. |
Massacre of Mérindol | Template:Dts | Mérindol | Template:Hs3,000 | Provençal/Papal troops | 3,000 Waldensians killed on order of Francis I of France. 670 sold as slaves, crops destroyed, herds killed and unknown number of peasants dead of hunger |
Amboise conspiracy | Template:Dts | Château d'Amboise | Template:Hs1,200–1,500 | Royal Army | 1,200–1,500 Protestant conspirators executed en masse<ref>Pierre Miquel, 1980, p.213, Robert Laffont. ed. Histoire et dictionnaire des guerres de religion 1998:61.</ref> |
Cahors massacre | Template:Dts | Cahors | Template:Hs40–50 | Catholics | Huguenots burned alive in their place of worship by Catholics |
Grenade massacre | Template:Dts | Grenade | Unknown | Catholics | Huguenots massacred by Catholics |
Carcassonne massacre | Template:Dts | Carcassonne | Template:Hs8 | Catholics | 3 Huguenots and 5 non-religious people massacred by Catholics |
Massacre of Vassy | Template:Dts | Wassy | Template:Hs80 | Catholics | Murder of Huguenots by forces of the Duc de Guise.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> |
Castelnaudary massacre | Template:Dts | Castelnaudary | Template:Hs60 | Catholics | Huguenots burned alive in their place of worship by Catholics. |
Sens massacre | Template:Dts | Sens | Template:Hs100 | Catholics | 100 Huguenots tied to poles and drowned by Catholics |
Orange massacre | Template:Dts | Orange | Unknown | Catholics | Population massacred by Catholics |
Gaillac massacre | Template:Dts | Gaillac | Template:Hs60–80 | Catholics | Huguenots captured and thrown in the river by Catholics |
Mornas massacre | Template:Dts | Mornas | Template:Hs200 | Protestants | 200 soldiers executed by Protestants |
Tours massacre | Template:Dts | Tours | Template:Hs200 | Catholics | 200 Huguenots bludgeoned to death and thrown in the Loire by Catholics |
Lauzerte massacre | Template:Dts | Lauzerte | Template:Hs94 | Catholics | 94 Huguenots burned alive in a church by Catholics. |
Bar-sur-Seine massacre | Template:Dts | Bar-sur-Seine | Template:Hs300 | Catholics | Catholic soldiers massacre 300 people after reconquering the citadel from the Huguenots |
Michelade | Template:Dts | Nîmes | Template:Hs80–90 | Protestants | Catholics killed by Protestants |
Bondeville massacre | Template:Dts | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville | Template:Hs40 | Catholics | Protestants attacked by Catholic crowd. 40 killed. |
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs5,000–30,000 | French state/Catholics | Huguenots (French Protestants) were massacred |
Aups massacre | Template:Dts | Aups | Template:Hs18 | Protestants | 18 killed by Protestant troops. Town looted and burned. |
First Issoire massacre | Template:Dts | Issoire | Unknown | Protestants | Catholics killed by Protestant troops under Matthieu Merle. Town looted. |
Second Issoire massacre | Template:Dts | Issoire | Template:Hs3,000 | Royal Army | 3,000 surrendering Protestants massacred by royal troops under Francis, Duke of Anjou following orders from King Henry III of France. Town razed. |
Cuers massacre | Template:Dts | Cuers | Template:Hs600 | Peasant rebels | 600 nobles and gentlemen massacred by peasants |
Mende massacre | Template:Dts | Mende | Template:Hs300 | Protestants | 300 townspeople massacred, mostly in the cathedral, by Protestant troops under Matthieu Merle |
Romans massacre | Template:Dts | Romans-sur-Isère | Template:Hs20 | Local patricians | 20 people massacred by patricians |
Moirans massacre | Template:Dts | Moirans | Template:Hs1,000 | Royal Army | 1,000 peasants massacred by royal troops |
Réquista massacre | Template:Dts | Réquista | Template:HsUnknown | Catholics | Catholics kill Protestants |
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Bourbon France
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Siege of Doullens | Template:Dts | Doullens | Template:Hs4000<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Army of Flanders | |
La Châtaigneraie massacre | Template:Dts | La Châtaigneraie | Template:Hs31 | Catholics | 31 Protestants out of 230 massacred by 45 cavalrymen |
Siege of Nègrepelisse | Template:Dts | Nègrepelisse | Template:Hs800 | Royal Army | All inhabitants of the Huguenot stronghold killed, all women raped and the town looted and burned to the ground on order of King Louis XIII of France |
Massacre at the Hôtel de Ville | Template:Dts | Hôtel de Ville, Paris | Template:Hs150 | Parisian mob | 150 people, including judges, massacred by a mob during the Fronde |
Serre massacre | Template:Dts | Saint-Genest-Lachamp | Template:HsUnknown | Royal Army | Protestant gathering massacred by royal troops. 400 killed and wounded.Template:Sfn |
Belvezet massacre | Template:Dts | Belvezet | Template:Hs20–25 | Camisards | 20–25 inhabitants massacred by Camisards |
Chamborigaud massacre | Template:Dts | Chamborigaud | Template:Hs26 | Camisards | 26 Catholics massacred by CamisardsTemplate:Sfn |
Fraissinet massacre | Template:Dts | Fraissinet-de-Fourques | Template:Hs33 | Camisards | 33 inhabitants massacred by CamisardsTemplate:Sfn |
Moulin de l’Agau massacre | Template:Dts | Nîmes | Template:Hs21–50 | Royal Army | 21–50 Protestants locked in a barn and burned alive by royal troopsTemplate:Sfn |
Valsauve massacre | Template:Dts | Verfeuil | Template:Hs16–17 | Camisards | 16–17 Catholics massacred by Camisards |
Potelières massacre | Template:Dts | Potelières | Template:Hs22–31 | Camisards | 22 Catholics massacred by CamisardsTemplate:Sfn |
Saint-Sériès massacre | Template:Dts | Saint-Sériès | Template:Hs11 | Camisards | 11 Catholics massacred by CamisardsTemplate:Sfn |
Saturargues massacre | Template:Dts | Saturargues | Template:Hs59 | Camisards | 59 Catholics massacred by CamisardsTemplate:Sfn |
Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge massacre | Template:Dts | Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge | Template:Hs9 | Camisards | 9 Catholics massacred by CamisardsTemplate:Sfn |
Branoux massacre | Template:Dts | Branoux-les-Taillades | Template:Hs47–52 | Catholic vigilantes | 47–52 inhabitants massacred by 600–700 Catholic vigilantesTemplate:Sfn |
Cévennes massacres | Template:Dts | Cévennes | Template:Hs600 | Royal Army | Over 600 people massacred in a rampage by royal troops under general Planque.Template:Sfn |
Franchassis massacre | Template:Dts | Pranles | Template:HsUnknown | Royal Army | All inhabitants killed by royal troops under general Julien. Village looted, burned and razed to the ground.Template:Sfn |
Cévennes massacres | Template:Dts | Cévennes | Template:Hs1,000 | Royal Army/Catholic vigilantes | Over 1,000 people massacred in a killing spree by 4,000 royal troops and Catholic vigilantes under Lieutenant General marquis La Lande.Template:Sfn |
Villars' terror campaign | Template:Dts | Cévennes | Template:HsUnknown | Royal Army | Dozens of villages burned and their inhabitants massacred by royal forces under Marshal Claude Louis Hector de VillarsTemplate:Sfn |
Vernoux massacre | Template:Dts | Vernoux | Template:Hs30 | Bourgeois militia/Royal Army | 30 Protestants killed by bourgeois militia and soldiers |
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Revolutionary and Imperial France
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Champ de Mars Massacre | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs12–50 | Royal Army | 12–50 republicans killed by royalist troops under Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette |
Massacres of La Glacière | Template:Dts | Avignon | Template:Hs60 | Patriots | 60 papists massacred by patriots |
September Massacres | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs1,500 | National Guard | Multiple massacres with varying death tolls during French Revolution |
First Massacre of Machecoul | Template:Dts | Machecoul | Template:Hs200 | Catholic and Royal Army | Royalist rebels massacre Republican civilians and soldiers |
First Battle of Noirmoutier | Template:Dts | Noirmoutier | Template:Hs200 | Catholic and Royal Army | Republican prisoners executed by rebels |
Drownings at Nantes | Template:Dts / Template:Dts | Nantes | Template:Hs4,800 | French Revolutionary Army | Multiple massacres by drownings by revolutionaries |
Massacre of Avranches | Template:Dts | Avranches | Template:Hs800 | French Revolutionary Army | 800 counter-revolutionary rebels executed by firing squad. |
Lyon Revolt | Template:Dts | Lyon | Template:Hs60 | French Revolutionary Army | 60 rebels massacred by soldiers |
Lyon Revolt | Template:Dts | Lyon | Template:Hs209 | French Revolutionary Army | 209 rebels massacred by soldiers |
Battle of Savenay | Template:Dts | Savenay | Template:Hs663–2,000 | French Revolutionary Army | Rebel prisoners executed by Republicans |
Thermidorian Reaction | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs169 | Thermidorians | 169 Robespierrists, Communards and Montagnards executed by Thermidorians |
Lyon massacre | Template:Dts | Lyon | Template:Hs99 | Mob | 99 Jacobin prisoners killed by rioters |
Aix-en-Provence massacre | Template:Dts | Aix-en-Provence | Template:Hs30 | Mob | 30 Jacobin prisoners killed |
Fort Saint-Jean massacre | Template:Dts | Lyon | Template:Hs100 | Mob | 100 Jacobin prisoners out of 127 killed by armed band |
Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs22 (+50 injured) | Chouannerie Royalists | Failed Royalist assassination attempt by bombing on First Consul Napoleon |
Mameluke massacre | Template:Dts | Marseille | Template:Hs18 | Royalists | Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard massacred in their barracks in Marseille by Royalists |
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July Monarchy
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Massacre de la rue Transnonain | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs19 | National Guard | Insurrectionists and civilians killed by the National Guard in Rue Transonain number 12 |
Attentat de Fieschi | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs18 (+22 injured) | Giuseppe Marco Fieschi | Attempted assassination of King Louis Philippe I with volley gun |
Massacre of Boulevard des Capucines | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs52–65 | French Army | Regular soldiers fire on crowd during the French Revolution of 1848 |
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Second Republic
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Rouen riots | Template:Dts | Rouen | Template:Hs59 | French Army | Insurrection suppressed after 59 rioters were killed by soldiers |
June Days uprising | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs1,500–3,000 | French Army | Suppression of June Days uprising. 1,500–3,000 rebels summarily executed and 12,500 arrested, of whom 4,500 deported to Algeria. |
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Second Empire
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Orsini affair | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs8 (+102 injured) | Felice Orsini | Attempted assassination of Emperor Napoleon III by Italian revolutionary |
Fusillade d'Aubin | Template:Dts | Aubin, Aveyron | Template:Hs14 (+20 wounded) | French Army | French soldiers fire on striking miners. |
Passavant massacre | Template:Dts | Passavant-en-Argonne | Template:Hs49 | Prussian Army | 49 Garde Mobile prisoners of war shot by Prussian troops |
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Third Republic
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Suppression of the Paris Commune | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs6,000–20,000 | French Army | Prisoners shot by the army of the Versailles government |
Hostage shooting during the Paris Commune | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs6 | Paris Commune | Six hostages, including Archbishop Georges Darboy shot by members of the National Guard of the Paris Commune. |
Fusillade de Fourmies | Template:Dts | Fourmies | Template:Hs9 (+35 injured) | French Army | French troops shot at peaceful strikers during the International Workers' Day |
Carmaux mining company bombing | Template:Dts | Paris | Template:Hs5 | Émile Henry | Five police officers killed by bomb planted by anarchist Émile Henry. |
Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes | Template:Dts | Aigues-Mortes | Template:Hs17 (+150 injured) | French villagers and labourers | Italian migrant workers massacred by French mob |
Gerbéviller massacre | Template:Dts | Gerbéviller | Template:Hs64 | Imperial German Army | 64 civilians killed by German soldiers, including 15 mutilated or burned alive. |
6 February 1934 crisis | Template:Dts | Place de la Concorde, Paris | Template:Hs16 (+2000 injured) | French police | French police shot at far-right demonstrators, mostly members of Action Française |
Assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia | Template:Dts | Marseille | Template:Hs6 (+5 injured) | Vlado Chernozemski | Bulgarian revolutionary Vlado Chernozemski shoots King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou |
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Second World War
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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Abbeville massacre | Template:Dts | Abbeville | Template:Hs22 | French Army | French soldiers shot a number of Flemish nationalists and members of the Belgian Communist Party as the German army cut off the area during the Battle of France |
Le Paradis massacre | Template:Dts | Le Paradis village, commune of Lestrem, Northern France | Template:Hs97 (+2 injured) | SS Totenkopf | shooting of British POWs by German troops (SS Totenkopf) |
Wormhoudt massacre | Template:Dts | Wormhoudt | Template:Hs80 (+15 injured) | Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler | shooting of British and French POWs by German troops (SS Adolf Hitler) |
Massacre of the Bois d'Eraine | Template:Dts | Cressonsacq | Template:Hs64 | Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland | Senegalese Tirailleurs and their white officers executed by Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland. |
Karl Hotz reprisals | Template:Dts | Châteaubriant, Nantes, Paris | Template:Hs48 | German forces | 48 French hostages executed as reprisal for the French resistance killing of Karl Hotz |
Ascq massacre | Template:Dts | Ascq, France | Template:Hs86 | 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend | murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Hitlerjugend) |
Audouville massacre | Template:Dts | Audouville-la-Hubert | Template:Hs30 | 101st Airborne Division | 30 Wehrmacht prisoners of war executed by US paratroopers |
Ardenne Abbey massacre | Template:Dts | Abbey d'Ardenne | Template:Hs20 | 12th SS Hitlerjugend | 20 Canadian POWs massacred by 12th SS Hitlerjugend |
Tulle massacre | Template:Dts | Tulle, Corrèze | Template:Hs120 killed, 149 deported | 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich | murder and deportation to Dachau of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) |
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre | Template:Dts | Oradour-sur-Glane | Template:Hs642 | 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich | murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) |
Dun-les-Places massacre | Template:Dts | Dun-les-Places | Template:Hs27 | German security forces | 27 villagers taken as hostages and executed by German forces |
Dortan Massacre | Template:Dts | Dortan | Template:Hs35 | Freiwilligen-Stamm-Division | 35-36 villagers arrested, tortured, raped and executed by German forces |
Guerry wells tragedy | Template:Dts/Template:Dts | Savigny-en-Septaine | Template:Hs36 | Sicherheitsdienst Milice | 36 Jews slain by Milice under SD command |
Penguerec massacre | Template:Dts | Gouesnou | Template:Hs44 | Kriegsmarine 3rd anti-air brigade | 44 French civilians massacred by Kriegsmarine personnel |
First Saint-Julien massacre | Template:Dts | Saint-Julien-de-Crempse | Template:Hs17 | German Army | 17 villagers executed by German troops as reprisal for French resistance activity |
Saint-Genis-Laval massacre | Template:Dts | Saint-Genis-Laval | Template:Hs120 | Sicherheitspolizei Milice | 120 prisoners executed by Sipo and Milice |
Maillé massacre | Template:Dts | Maillé, Indre-et-Loire | Template:Hs124 | 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen | murder of French civilians by German troops (17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen) |
Affair of 27 martyrs | Template:Dts | Chatou | Template:Hs27 | German forces | 27 Frenchmen executed as reprisal for French Resistance attack. |
Massacre de la vallée de la Saulx | Template:Dts | Vallée de la Saulx | Template:Hs86 | 3rd Panzergrenadier Division | 86 French villagers massacred by 3rd Panzergrenadier Division |
Second Saint-Julien massacre | Template:Dts | Saint-Julien-de-Crempse | Template:Hs17 | French resistance | 17 Wehrmacht prisoners of war executed by villagers as revenge for first massacre |
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Post-War
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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14 July 1953 demonstration | Template:Dts | Paris | 7 (+50 demonstrators, 16 police wounded) | French police | Seven people, including 6 Algerians, killed by French police |
1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing | Template:Dts | Blacy, Marne | 24–28 (+132–170 injured) | Organisation armée secrète | Train derailed by OAS explosive, killing up to 28. |
Paris massacre of 1961 | Template:Dts | Paris | 40 (government sources) ~200 (opposition sources) | French police | Algerian demonstrators killed by French police |
The Charonne Metro Station Massacre | Template:Dts | Charonne | 9 | French police | CGT Trade union members and communists killed by French police |
Marseille bar massacre | Template:Dts | Marseille | 7 | Armed gunmen | Organized crime war |
Sofitel massacre | Template:Dts | Avignon | 7 | Robbers | Four luxury hotel employees and three customers killed by robbers |
Ille-et-Vilaine massacre | Template:Dts | Ille-et-Vilaine | 7 | Guy Martel | spree killing |
Luxiol massacre | Template:Dts | Luxiol | 14 | Christian Dornier | spree killing, 3 family members and random inhabitants |
Besançon massacre | Template:Dts | Besançon | 7 (+5 wounded) | Franck Zoritch | 7 people killed Franck Zoritch |
Cuers massacre | Template:Dts | Cuers | 16 | Éric Borel | spree killing, 3 family members and random inhabitants, perpetrator committed suicide. |
Tours massacre | Template:Dts | Tours | 4 (+7 wounded) | Jean-Pierre Roux-Durrafourt | 4 people killed by Jean-Pierre Roux-Durraffourt |
Nanterre massacre | Template:Dts | Nanterre | 9 (+19 injured) | Richard Durn | spree killing, perpetrator committed suicide. |
2012 Midi-Pyrénées massacre | Template:Dts | Midi-Pyrénées region | 7 (+5 injured) | Mohammed Merah | A French radical Islamist man attacks a Jewish school, he murders 3 young children and a rabbi at the school, and also kills 3 French soldiers. |
Annecy shootings | Template:Dts | Chevaline, Haute-Savoie | 4 | Unknown | 3 Britons and 1 Frenchman killed in shooting |
2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre | Template:Dts | Paris | 12 (+11 injured) | Chérif and Saïd Kouachi | Two French radical Islamist brothers attack an office, they murder 11 at the office and kill a French police officer on the street. |
2015 Porte de Vincennes massacre | Template:Dts | Paris | 5 (+11 injured) | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | A French radical Islamist man attacks a Jewish supermarket and murders 4, a French policewoman is also killed on the street the previous day. |
Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberate crash | Template:Dts | Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 150 | Andreas Lubitz | Andreas Lubitz, the German co-pilot, deliberately crashed the plane on the French Alps, killing all passengers and crew. |
November 2015 Paris attacks | Template:Dts | Paris | 130 (+368 injured) | ISIL | Eight radical Islamists men of ISIL perform coordinated attacks upon the French public at various locations in Paris using assault rifles and explosives;<ref name="RTE 20">Template:Cite news</ref> |
2016 Nice attack | Template:Dts | Nice | 86 (+434 injured) | Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel | A Tunisian/French radical Islamist man attacks the French public celebrating Bastille Day, he drives a 19 tonne cargo truck through the public on the street thereby killing indiscriminately. |
Carcassonne and Trèbes attack | Template:Dts | Trèbes and Carcassonne | 4 (+15 injured) | Redouane Lakdim | Islamist terrorist Redouane Lakdim shoots and stabs four people to death. |
2018 Strasbourg attack | Template:Dts | Strasbourg | 3 (+12 injured) | Chérif Chekatt (29 years old) | Islamist terrorist Chérif Chekatt shoots three people to death with a revolver and injures several people by stabbing with a knife. Chekatt was killed 2 days later by the police, after a razzia in Strasbourgs district Neudorf. He was shot after opening the fire on several police officers. |
February 2019 Paris fire | Template:Dts | Paris | 10 (+36 injured) | Unknown | Arson at an apartment block. |
Paris police headquarters stabbing | Template:Dts | Paris | 4 (+2 injured) | Mickaël Harpon | Police employee stab four colleagues to death. |
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