What event escalated tensions between French Protestants and Catholics and probably accelerated the fall of the Valois dynasty in sixteenth-century France?
A) the death of Henry II at a jousting tournament in 1559
B) the marriage of Henry II to an Italian princess, Catherine de Medici, in 1547
C) the murder of some 5,000 Huguenots across France by Catholics, known as St.Bartholomew's Massacre, in 1572
D) Queen Elizabeth's rejection of marriage proposals from the Duke of Anjou, heir to the French throne
E) the invasion of Spanish troops in support of the Huguenots
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