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Credit: Célestin Deshayes, restored by Adam Cuerden
Set design for act 2 of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots for its première performance in 1836. Les Huguenots tells the story of the love between a Huguenot (Protestant) man and a Catholic woman, while religious hatred sweeps across France, culminating in the historical St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, during which the woman's father, finding the Huguenots, realises only after killing them that his daughter was with them, and has now died at his hand.