abstract:In the French Wars of Religion, the Day of the Barricades (in french : Journée des barricades), 12 May 1588, was an apparently spontaneous public uprising in staunchly Catholic Paris against the moderate, hesitant, temporalizing policies of Henry III. It was called forth by the "Council of Sixteen", representing the sixteen quartiers of Paris,Peter M.
Throughout theday, dozens of friends and neighbors streamed in and out ofthe neighborhood, walking past police barricades that blocked the entrance to the street down a road toward the Long Island Sound.
Bhutto and her supporters had spent much oftheday in a standoff against security forces, who placed barbed wire and barricades around her Islamabad home, preventing her attending a planned rally banned by the government, she told CNN.