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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in France (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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| Massacre at Béziers | August 1209 | Béziers | 15,000+ | First major military action of the Albigensian Crusade |
| Massacre of Vassy | 1 March 1562 | Wassy | 80 | murder of Huguenots by forces of the Duc de Guise |
| St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | 24 August 1572 | Paris | 5,000–30,000 | Huguenots (French Protestants) were massacred |
| September Massacres | September 1792 | Paris | 1,500 | Multiple massacres with varying death tolls during French Revolution |
| Drownings at Nantes | November 1793 / February 1794 | Nantes | 4,800 | Multiple massacres by drownings by revolutionaries |
| Le Paradis massacre | 27 May 1940 | Le Paradis village, commune of Lestrem, Northern France | 97 (+2 injured) | shooting of British POWs by German troops (SS Totenkopf) |
| Wormhoudt massacre | 28 May 1940 | Wormhoudt | 80 (+15 injured) | shooting of British and French POWs by German troops (SS Adolf Hitler) |
| Ascq massacre | 1 April 1944 | Ascq, France | 86 | murder of French civilians by German troops (SS HitlerJugend) |
| Tulle massacre | 9 June 1944 | Tulle, Corrèze | 120 killed, 149 deported | murder and deportation to Dachau of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) |
| Oradour-sur-Glane massacre | 10 June 1944 | Oradour-sur-Glane | 642 | murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) |
| Maillé massacre | 25 August 1944 | Maillé, Indre-et-Loire | 124 | murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Gotz von Berlichingen) |
| Paris massacre of 1961 | 17 October 1961 | Paris | 40(government sources) ~200(opposition sources) | Algerian demonstrators killed by French police |
| The Charonne Metro Station Massacre | 8 February 1962 | Charonne | 9 | CGT Trade union members and communists killed by French police |
| Nanterre massacre | 27 March 2002 | Nanterre | 9 (+19 injured) | spree killing, perpetrator committed suicide. |
| 2012 Midi-Pyrénées massacre | 19 March 2012 | Midi-Pyrénées region | 7 | French Muslim attacked a Jewish school, killing 3 young children and a rabbi at the school; assailant also killed 3 French soldiers |
| 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre | 7 January 2015 | Paris | 12 confirmed dead as of 13:16, 7 January 2015 (UTC) | Details still emerging |
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