In The Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX, Merimee turned to the depiction of significant, crucial in nature social upheavals. The action of his novel takes place during the years of religious and civil wars that swept France in the second half of the 16th century. The culminating moment in the development of this action is the Bartholomew’s Night, the terrible Huguenot massacre perpetrated by Catholics. The peculiarity of the artistic manner in which the Chronicle of the reign of Charles IX is written is determined by the concept of the work. the desire to comprehensively and objectively characterize the public atmosphere that prevailed in the country during the years of religious wars, to highlight the image of the mores and moods of ordinary people 1825 1828