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Palatinate massacre by french. The first serious engagement of the war began when Louis XIV army crossed into the Rhineland in September 1688 laying siege to Philippsburg. The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in France (numbers may be approximate): Julius Caesar 's soldiers massacre the population of Cenabum. The devastation of the Palatinate by the French troops in 1688–1689 was actually the combination of three ways of doing war which weren’t new but had been systematically used on a larger scale: fundraising, the scorched earth policy, and the destruction of fortified places. After a month long siege Philippsburg fell in October. As numerous offers of restitution were rejected during the 1630s and 1640s, the chapter will The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598. It is most commonly known as The Nine Years War. By the end of the sixteenth century, Huguenots constituted 7–8% of the whole population, or 1. Il est le fait de Turenne, en 1674. Un second ravage, appelé sac du Palatinat, aura lieu à partir de 1689, sur ordre de Louvois. It lasted from 1688 to 1697 and saw the Palatinate laid waste by French invaders.