# List of massacres in France

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in France (numbers may be approximate):

## Celtic Gaul

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| 1st Cenabum massacre | 53 BC | Cenabum | Unknown | Carnutes | Carnutes massacre Roman civilians and soldiers |
| 2nd Cenabum massacre | 53 BC | Cenabum | Unknown | Roman army | Julius Caesar's soldiers massacre the population of Cenabum. |
| Siege of Avaricum | 52 BC | Avaricum | 39,200 | Roman army | Julius Caesar's soldiers massacre the population of Avaricum. |

## Roman Gaul

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Sack of Metz | 7 April 451 | Metz | Unknown | Huns | City sacked and burned and all inhabitants killed by Hun troops under Attila. |

## Merovingian Francia

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Vienne massacre | 501 | Vienne | Unknown | Forces of Gundobad and Godegisel | Townspeople slaughtered during battle between competing Burgundian factions. Hostile Gallo-Roman senators and Godegisel's supporters executed by Gundobad's troops. |
| Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges massacre | 585 | Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges | Unknown | Kingdom of Orléans | All inhabitants, including priests, put to the sword by royal troops of Guntram |

## Carolingian Francia

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Siege of Clermont (761) | 761 | Clermont | Unknown | Royal Frankish Army | Men, women and children burned alive by Frankish army of King Pepin the Short. |
| Sack of Nantes | 24 June 843 | Nantes | Unknown | Vikings | Town population and monks massacred and burned alive in a church by raiding Vikings. Others captured as slaves. |
| Marmoutier massacre | 853 | Marmoutier Abbey | 126 | Vikings | 126 monks killed by Vikings. 20 survivors escaped. |

## Capetian France

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Orléans heresy | 28 December 1022 | Orléans | 10–20 | Robert II the Pious | 10–20 priests, nuns and lay people burned at the stake on orders of King Robert II of France |
| Rouen massacre | September 1096 | Rouen | Unknown | Crusaders | Jews of Rouen rounded up in the synagogue and systematically massacred by Crusaders |
| Tournai-sur-Dive massacre | 1105 | Tournai-sur-Dive | 45 | Troops of Robert of Bellême | 45 people burned alive in a church by forces of Robert of Bellême |
| Bougy-sur-Risle massacre | 1136 | Romilly-la-Puthenaye | Unknown | Troops of Waleran and Robert de Beaumont | Men and women burned alive in a church by forces of Waleran and Robert de Beaumont |
| Vitry massacre | 1142 | Vitry-en-Perthois | 1,300 | Royal Army | 1,300 people burned alive in a church by forces of King Louis VII of France |
| Ham massacre | 1143 | Ham | 150 | Unknown | 150 Jews massacred |
| Vézelay massacre | 1167 | Vézelay | 7 | Abbot of Vézelay | Seven Burgundian Cathars burned at the stake |
| Blois massacre | 26 May 1171 | Blois | 31 | Soldiers of Theobald V, Count of Blois | 31 Jews, including 17 women, locked in and burned alive in a house by Theobald V, Count of Blois on accusations of blood libel |
| Bray-sur-Seine massacre | 18 March 1192 | Bray-sur-Seine | 80 | Royal Army | 80 Jews burned by French troops, acting on command of King Philip II of France |
| Massacre at Béziers | 22 July 1209 | Béziers | 20,000 | Crusaders | First major military action of the Albigensian Crusade. |
| Siege of Minerve | 22 July 1210 | Minerve | 140 | Crusaders | Cathars burned at the stake by Crusaders. |
| Alayrac massacre | 1210 | Alayrac | Unknown | Crusaders | Stronghold garrison captured and massacred by Crusaders |
| Lavaur massacre | 3 May 1211 | Lavaur | 480 | Crusaders | 80 knights hanged and stabbed to death, 400 Cathars burned by Crusaders |
| Les Cassés massacre | 20 May 1211 | Les Cassés | 60–94 | Crusaders | 60–94 Cathars burned alive by Simon de Montfort's Crusaders |
| Saint Marcel massacre | 12 May 1212 | Saint–Marcel | 28 | Crusaders | 28 male civilians killed or drowned by Crusaders |
| Lavelanet massacre | 1212 | Lavelanet | Unknown | Crusaders | Inhabitants put to the sword by Crusader forces under Guy de Montfort, Lord of Sidon |
| Moissac massacre | 8 September 1212 | Moissac | 300 | Crusaders | 300 garrison soldiers executed without trial by Crusaders |
| Pujol massacre | May 1213 | Sainte-Foy-d'Aigrefeuille | 60 | Toulousain militia | 60 Crusaders killed in Pujol Castle by mob of soldiers under Roger-Bernard |
| Casseneuil massacre | 18 August 1214 | Casseneuil | Unknown | Crusaders | Population and garrison massacred |
| Massacre at Marmande | 10 June 1219 | Marmande | 5,000 | Royal Army | All men, women and children in the town killed with swords and the town razed and burned to the ground by royal army under prince Louis. |
| Labécède massacre | 1227 | Labécède | Unknown | Crusaders | Men killed and Cathar Perfect burnt to death by Crusader forces of Humbert V de Beaujeu |
| Moissac massacre | 1234 | Moissac | 210 | Papal Inquisition | 210 Cathars burned at the stake by Inquisitors William Arnald and Peter Seila |
| Jewish massacres | July 1236 | Poitou, Anjou and Brittany | 2,500–3,000 | Crusaders | Jews killed by Crusaders |
| Montwimer massacre | 29 May 1239 | Montwimer | 183 | Papal Inquisition/Crusaders | 183 Cathars burned at the stake by Robert le Bougre and Thibaut IV of Champagne |
| Carcassonne massacre | 8 September 1240 | Carcassonne | 33 | Army of Raymond II Trencavel | 33 clerics massacred by forces of Trencavel after being promised safe passage from the besieged city. |
| Avignonet massacre | 28 May 1242 | Avignonet | 11 | Cathars | Two Inquisitors and their nine followers massacred in their sleep by Cathar rebels under Pierre-Roger de Mirepoix |
| Siege of Montségur | 16 March 1244 | Château de Montségur | 210–215 | Royal Army | Cathars burned in a bonfire by the Royal Army. |
| Agen massacre | 1249 | Agen | 80 | Papal Inquisition | 80 heretics burned at the stake |
| Dijon massacre | 1251 | Dijon | 139 | Shepherd Crusaders | 139 Jews massacred |
| Troyes massacre | 24 April 1288 | Troyes | 13 | Papal Inquisition | 13 Jews burned at the stake by the Inquisition, supported by King Philip IV of France |
| Castelsarrasin massacre | 12 June 1320 | Castelsarrasin | 152 | Shepherd Crusaders | 152 Jews massacred by Pastoureaux |
| Toulouse massacre | 15 June 1320 | Toulouse | 115–150 | Shepherd Crusaders | 115–150 Jews massacred by Pastoureaux |
| Vitry massacre | 1321 | Vitry-en-Perthois | 77 | Unknown | 77 Jews massacred during the 1321 leper scare. Forty Jews imprisoned and committed mass suicide. |
| Chinon massacre | 21 August 1321 | Chinon | 120–160 | Royal authorities | 120–160 Jews burned at the stake on accusation of well poisoning |

## Valois France

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Battle of Caen (1346) | 26 July 1346 | Caen | 2,500–3,000 | English forces | Thousands killed during the sack of the town by a force of 12,000 troops led by Edward III of England |
| Toulon massacre | 13 April 1348 | Toulon | 40 | Mob | Jewish community of Toulon killed as part of the Black Death Jewish persecutions |
| Jacquerie | June 1358 | Northern France | 20,000 | Peasants, aristocracy and nobility | Peasant Jacquerie rebels massacre hundreds of noblemen, women and children. Some 20,000 peasants are in turn exterminated by nobles |
| Siege of Limoges | 19 September 1370 | Limoges | 200–400 | English forces | Hundreds of civilians killed during a sack of the town by 3,200 troops under the command of Edward the Black Prince |
| Benon castle massacre | September 1372 | Poitou | Unknown | Royal Army | English garrison of Benon castle summarily executed by French troops led by Bertrand du Guesclin |
| Maillotins Revolt | 3 March 1382 | Paris | 30 | Maillotins | 30 people, including 16 Jews, killed by mob |
| Battle of Agincourt | 25 October 1415 | Caen | Unknown | English forces | French prisoners of war executed during the battle by troops under the command of Henry V of England |
| Siege of Caen (1417) | 4 September 1417 | Caen | 1,800–2,000 | English forces | Between 1,800 and 2,000 civilians rounded up in the town marketplace and killed by troops led by Henry V of England, despite his orders against doing so |
| Paris massacres | 12 June 1418 21 August 1418 | Paris | 1,000–5,000 | Parisian mob | Armagnacs slaughtered by Parisian mob |
| Siege of Rougemont | 1421 | Rougemont | 60 | English forces | French garrison hung or drowned on the orders of Henry V of England |
| Sézanne massacre | 24 June 1424 | Sézanne | Unknown | English forces | Most inhabitants of the town killed during the sack of Sézanne by troops under the command of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury |
| Battle of Jargeau | 12 June 1429 | Jargeau | Unknown | Royal Army | English prisoners executed by French troops under Joan of Arc and John II, Duke of Alençon |
| Siege of Chaumont | 1434 | Chaumont | 100 | Burgundian Army | Garrison hanged by Philip the Good |
| Vicques massacre | August 1434 | Vicques | Unknown | Mercenaries in English service | Mercenaries in English service kill a large number of Normans |
| Lihons massacre | February 1440 | Lihons | 300 | English forces | 300 men, women and children burned alive in a church by troops led by John Talbot after refusing to surrender |
| Nesle massacre | 14 June 1472 | Nesle | Unknown | Burgundian Army | Entire population of Nesle slaughtered and town razed to the ground by Burgundian Army under Duke Charles the Bold |
| Lectoure massacre | 5 March 1473 | Lectoure | Unknown | Royal Army | Population massacred and city looted, burned and methodically razed to the ground by royal troops under Cardinal Jean Jouffroy. Defeat of the house of Armagnac. |
| Avesnes massacre | 11 June 1477 | Avesnes | Unknown | Royal Army | Civilian population completely exterminated and city destroyed by royal troops under Antoine de Chabannes |
| Massacre of Mérindol | April 1545 | Mérindol | 3,000 | Provençal/Papal troops | 3,000 Waldensians killed on order of Francis I of France. 670 sold as slaves, crops destroyed, herds killed and unknown number of peasants starved to death |
| Amboise conspiracy | 19 March 1560 | Château d'Amboise | 1,200–1,500 | Royal Army | 1,200–1,500 Protestant conspirators executed en masse |
| Cahors massacre | 19 November 1561 | Cahors | 40–50 | Catholics | Huguenots burned alive in their place of worship by Catholics |
| Grenade massacre | November 1561 | Grenade | Unknown | Catholics | Huguenots massacred by Catholics |
| Carcassonne massacre | 15 December 1561 | Carcassonne | 8 | Catholics | 3 Huguenots and 5 non-religious people massacred by Catholics |
| Massacre of Vassy | 1 March 1562 | Wassy | 80 | Catholics | Murder of Huguenots by forces of the Duc de Guise. |
| Castelnaudary massacre | 22 March 1562 | Castelnaudary | 60 | Catholics | Huguenots burned alive in their place of worship by Catholics. |
| Massacre of Sens | 12 April 1562 | Sens | 100 | Catholics | 100 Huguenots tied to poles and drowned by Catholics |
| Orange massacre | 6 May 1562 | Orange | Unknown | Catholics | Population massacred by Catholics |
| Gaillac massacre | 18 May 1562 | Gaillac | 60–80 | Catholics | Huguenots captured and thrown in the river by Catholics |
| Mornas massacre | July 1562 | Mornas | 200 | Protestants | 200 soldiers executed by Protestants |
| Tours massacre | 15 July 1562 | Tours | 200 | Catholics | 200 Huguenots bludgeoned to death and thrown in the Loire by Catholics |
| Lauzerte massacre | 15 August 1562 | Lauzerte | 94 | Catholics | 94 Huguenots burned alive in a church by Catholics. |
| Bar-sur-Seine massacre | 24 August 1562 | Bar-sur-Seine | 300 | Catholics | Catholic soldiers massacre 300 people after reconquering the citadel from the Huguenots |
| Michelade | 30 September 1567 | Nîmes | 80–90 | Protestants | Catholics killed by Protestants |
| Bondeville massacre | 18 March 1571 | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville | 40 | Catholics | Protestants attacked by Catholic crowd. 40 killed. |
| St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | 24 August 1572 | Paris | 5,000–30,000 | French state/Catholics | Huguenots (French Protestants) were massacred |
| Aups massacre | 16 August 1574 | Aups | 18 | Protestants | 18 killed by Protestant troops. Town looted and burned. |
| First Issoire massacre | 15 October 1575 | Issoire | Unknown | Protestants | Catholics killed by Protestant troops under Matthieu Merle. Town looted. |
| Second Issoire massacre | 12 June 1577 | Issoire | 3,000 | Royal Army | 3,000 surrendering Protestants massacred by royal troops under Francis, Duke of Anjou following orders from King Henry III of France. Town razed. |
| Cuers massacre | 10 April 1579 | Cuers | 600 | Peasant rebels | 600 nobles and gentlemen massacred by peasants |
| Mende massacre | 25 December 1579 | Mende | 300 | Protestants | 300 Catholic townspeople massacred, mostly in the cathedral, by Protestant troops under Matthieu Merle |
| Romans massacre | 16 February 1580 | Romans-sur-Isère | 20 | Local patricians | 20 people massacred by patricians |
| Moirans massacre | 26 March 1580 | Moirans | 1,000 | Royal Army | 1,000 peasants massacred by royal troops |
| Réquista massacre | June 1581 | Réquista | Unknown | Catholics | Catholics kill Protestants |

## Bourbon France

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Battle of Craon | 24 May 1592 | Craon, Mayenne | Unknown | Spanish Empire Catholic League | English prisoners executed |
| Siege of Fort Crozon | 19 November 1594 | Pointe des Espagnols | Unknown | English forces | Spanish soldiers and civilian summarily executed |
| Capture of Ham (1595) | 22 June 1595 | Ham, Somme | Unknown | Royal Army | Spanish garrison massacred |
| Siege of Doullens | July 1595 | Doullens | 4,000 | Army of Flanders | Garrison and civilian population killed |
| La Châtaigneraie massacre | 13 August 1595 | La Châtaigneraie | 31 | Catholics | 31 Protestants out of 230 massacred by 45 cavalrymen |
| Siege of Nègrepelisse | 11 June 1622 | Nègrepelisse | 800 | Royal Army | All inhabitants of the Huguenot stronghold killed, all women raped and the town looted and burned to the ground on order of King Louis XIII of France |
| Massacre at the Hôtel de Ville | 4 July 1652 | Hôtel de Ville, Paris | 150 | Parisian mob | 150 people, including judges, massacred by a mob during the Fronde |
| Serre massacre | 19 February 1689 | Saint-Genest-Lachamp | Unknown | Royal Army | Protestant gathering massacred by royal troops. 400 killed and wounded. |
| Belvezet massacre | 5 January 1703 | Belvezet | 20–25 | Camisards | 20–25 inhabitants massacred by Camisards |
| Chamborigaud massacre | 17 February 1703 | Chamborigaud | 26 | Camisards | 26 Catholics massacred by Camisards |
| Fraissinet massacre | 26 February 1703 | Fraissinet-de-Fourques | 33 | Camisards | 33 inhabitants massacred by Camisards |
| Moulin de l’Agau massacre | 1 April 1703 | Nîmes | 21–50 | Royal Army | 21–50 Protestants locked in a barn and burned alive by royal troops |
| Valsauve massacre | 5 July 1703 | Verfeuil | 16–17 | Camisards | 16–17 Catholics massacred by Camisards |
| Potelières massacre | 12 September 1703 | Potelières | 22–31 | Camisards | 22 Catholics massacred by Camisards |
| Saint-Sériès massacre | 20 September 1703 | Saint-Sériès | 11 | Camisards | 11 Catholics massacred by Camisards |
| Saturargues massacre | 20 September 1703 | Saturargues | 59 | Camisards | 59 Catholics massacred by Camisards |
| Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge massacre | 11 October 1703 | Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge | 9 | Camisards | 9 Catholics massacred by Camisards |
| Branoux massacre | 30 October 1703 | Branoux-les-Taillades | 47–52 | Catholic vigilantes | 47–52 inhabitants massacred by 600–700 Catholic vigilantes |
| Cévennes massacres | January 1704 | Cévennes | 600 | Royal Army | Over 600 people massacred in a rampage by royal troops under general Planque. |
| Franchassis massacre | 24 February 1704 | Pranles | Unknown | Royal Army | All inhabitants killed by royal troops under general Julien. Village looted, burned and razed to the ground. |
| Cévennes massacres | April 1704 | Cévennes | 1,000 | Royal Army/Catholic vigilantes | Over 1,000 people massacred in a killing spree by 4,000 royal troops and Catholic vigilantes under Lieutenant General marquis La Lande. |
| Villars' terror campaign | August 1704 | Cévennes | Unknown | Royal Army | Dozens of villages burned and their inhabitants massacred by royal forces under Marshal Claude Louis Hector de Villars |
| Vernoux massacre | 12 December 1745 | Vernoux | 30 | Bourgeois militia/Royal Army | 30 Protestants killed by bourgeois militia and soldiers |

## Revolutionary and Imperial France

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Champ de Mars Massacre | 17 July 1791 | Paris | 12–50 | Royal Army | 12–50 republicans killed by royalist troops under Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette |
| Massacres of La Glacière | 17 October 1791 | Avignon | 60 | Patriots | 60 papists massacred by patriots |
| September Massacres | September 1792 | Paris | 1,500 | National Guard | Multiple massacres with varying death tolls during French Revolution |
| First Massacre of Machecoul | 11 March 1793 | Machecoul | 200 | Catholic and Royal Army | Royalist rebels massacre Republican civilians and soldiers |
| First Battle of Noirmoutier | 12 October 1793 | Noirmoutier | 200 | Catholic and Royal Army | Republican prisoners executed by rebels |
| Drownings at Nantes | November 1793 / February 1794 | Nantes | 4,800 | French Revolutionary Army | Multiple massacres by drownings by revolutionaries |
| Avranches massacre | 21 November 1793 | Avranches | 800 | French Revolutionary Army | 800 counter-revolutionary rebels executed by firing squad. |
| Lyon Revolt | 4 December 1793 | Lyon | 60 | French Revolutionary Army | 60 rebels massacred by soldiers |
| Lyon Revolt | 5 December 1793 | Lyon | 209 | French Revolutionary Army | 209 rebels massacred by soldiers |
| Battle of Savenay | December 1793 | Savenay | 663–2,000 | French Revolutionary Army | Rebel prisoners executed by Republicans |
| Infernal columns | January 21–May 17 1794 | Vendée | 20,000 - 50,000 | French Revolutionary Army | A series of massacres in an area previously affected by the Royalist uprising. |
| Thermidorian Reaction | 28 July 1794 | Paris | 169 | Thermidorians | 169 Robespierrists, Communards and Montagnards executed by Thermidorians |
| Lyon massacre | 4 April 1795 | Lyon | 99 | Mob | 99 Jacobin prisoners killed by rioters |
| Aix-en-Provence massacre | 11 May 1795 | Aix-en-Provence | 30 | Mob | 30 Jacobin prisoners killed |
| Fort Saint-Jean massacre | 5 June 1795 | Lyon | 100 | Mob | 100 Jacobin prisoners out of 127 killed by armed band |
| Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise | 24 December 1800 | Paris | 22 (+50 injured) | Chouannerie Royalists | Failed Royalist assassination attempt by bombing on First Consul Napoleon |

## Bourbon Restoration

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Second White Terror | 1815 | Nationwide | 300–500 | Royalists | Royalist mobs kill 300–500 people |

## July Monarchy

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Massacre of rue Transnonain | 13 April 1834 | Paris | 12 | National Guard | Insurrectionists and civilians killed by the National Guard in Rue Transonain number 12. |
| Attentat de Fieschi | 28 July 1835 | Paris | 18 (+22 injured) | Giuseppe Marco Fieschi | Attempted assassination of King Louis Philippe I with volley gun |
| Massacre of Boulevard des Capucines | 23 February 1848 | Paris | 52–65 | French Army | Regular soldiers fire on crowd during the French Revolution of 1848 |

## Second Republic

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Rouen riots | April 1848 | Rouen | 59 | French Army | Insurrection suppressed after 59 rioters were killed by soldiers |
| June Days uprising | June 1848 | Paris | 1,500–3,000 | French Army | Suppression of June Days uprising. 1,500–3,000 rebels summarily executed and 12,500 arrested, of whom 4,500 deported to Algeria. |

## Second Empire

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Orsini affair | 14 January 1858 | Paris | 8 (+102 injured) | Felice Orsini | Attempted assassination of Emperor Napoleon III by Italian revolutionary |
| Fusillade d'Aubin | 8 October 1869 | Aubin, Aveyron | 14 (22 wounded) | French Army | French soldiers fire on striking miners. |
| Passavant massacre | 25 August 1870 | Passavant-en-Argonne | 49 | Prussian Army | 49 Garde Mobile prisoners of war shot by Prussian troops |

## Third Republic

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Suppression of the Paris Commune | May 1871 | Paris | 6,000–20,000 | French Army | Prisoners shot by the army of the Versailles government |
| Hostage shooting during the Paris Commune | 24 May 1871 | Paris | 6 | Paris Commune | Six hostages, including Archbishop Georges Darboy shot by members of the National Guard of the Paris Commune. |
| Fusillade de Fourmies | 1 May 1891 | Fourmies | 9 (+35 injured) | French Army | French troops shot at peaceful strikers during the International Workers' Day |
| Carmaux mining company bombing | 8 November 1892 | Paris | 5 | Émile Henry | Five police officers killed by bomb planted by anarchist Émile Henry. |
| Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes | 17 June 1893 | Aigues-Mortes | 17 (+150 injured) | French villagers and labourers | Italian migrant workers massacred by French mob |
| Gerbéviller massacre | 24 August 1914 | Gerbéviller | 64 | Imperial German Army | 64 civilians killed by German soldiers, including 15 mutilated or burned alive. |
| 6 February 1934 crisis | 6 February 1934 | Place de la Concorde, Paris | 16 (+2000 injured) | French police | French police shot at far-right demonstrators, mostly members of Action Française |
| Assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia | 9 October 1934 | Marseille | 6 (+5 injured) | Vlado Chernozemski | Bulgarian revolutionary Vlado Chernozemski shoots King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou |

## Second World War

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Abbeville massacre | 20 May 1940 | Abbeville | 22 | French Army | French soldiers shot a number of Flemish nationalists and members of the Belgian Communist Party as the German army cut off the area during the Battle of France |
| Le Paradis massacre | 27 May 1940 | Le Paradis village, commune of Lestrem, Northern France | 97 (+2 injured) | SS Totenkopf | shooting of British POWs by German troops (SS Totenkopf) |
| Wormhoudt massacre | 28 May 1940 | Wormhoudt | 80 (+15 injured) | Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler | shooting of British and French POWs by German troops (SS Adolf Hitler) |
| Bois d'Eraine massacre | 11 June 1940 | Cressonsacq | ~74 | Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland | Senegalese Tirailleurs and their white officers executed by Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland. |
| Karl Hotz reprisals | 22 October 1941 | Châteaubriant, Nantes, Paris | 48 | German forces | 48 French hostages executed as reprisal for the French resistance killing of Karl Hotz |
| Ascq massacre | 1 April 1944 | Ascq, France | 86 | 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend | murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Hitlerjugend) |
| Audouville massacre | 6 June 1944 | Audouville-la-Hubert | 30 | 101st Airborne Division | 30 Wehrmacht prisoners of war executed by US paratroopers |
| Ardenne Abbey massacre | June 1944 | Ardenne Abbey | 20 | 12th SS Hitlerjugend | 20 Canadian POWs massacred by 12th SS Hitlerjugend |
| Tulle massacre | 9 June 1944 | Tulle, Corrèze | 120 killed, 149 deported | 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich | 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 | 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich | murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) |
| Graignes massacre | 11 June 1944 | Graignes, Manche | 61 | 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division | 17 American POWs were bayonetted and shot to death and 44 French civilians accused of assisting the Americans were shot by German troops. |
| Dun-les-Places massacre | 28 June 1944 | Dun-les-Places | 27 | German security forces | 27 villagers taken as hostages and executed by German forces |
| Dortan Massacre | 12 July 1944 | Dortan | 35 | Freiwilligen-Stamm-Division | 35-36 villagers arrested, tortured, raped and executed by German forces |
| Tragedy of the Guerry's wells | July 1944/August 1944 | Savigny-en-Septaine | 36 | Sicherheitsdienst Milice | 36 Jews slain by Milice under SD command |
| Penguerec massacre | 7 August 1944 | Gouesnou | 44 | Kriegsmarine 3rd anti-air brigade | 44 French civilians massacred by Kriegsmarine personnel. |
| First Saint-Julien massacre | 9 August 1944 | Saint-Julien-de-Crempse | 17 | German Army | 17 villagers executed by German troops as reprisal for French resistance activity |
| Saint-Genis-Laval massacre | 20 August 1944 | Saint-Genis-Laval | 120 | Sicherheitspolizei Milice | 120 prisoners executed by Sipo and Milice |
| Buchères massacre | 24 August 1944 | Buchères | 68 | SS Panzergrenadier Brigade 51 | Men of the SS Panzergrenadier Brigade 51 massacred 68 people in a reprisal following an ambush by partisans against the unit |
| Maillé massacre | 25 August 1944 | Maillé, Indre-et-Loire | 124 | 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen | murder of French civilians by German troops (17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen) |
| Affair of 27 martyrs | 25 August 1944 | Chatou | 27 | German forces | 27 Frenchmen executed as reprisal for French Resistance attack. |
| Vallée de la Saulx massacre | 28 August 1944 | Vallée de la Saulx | 86 | 3rd Panzergrenadier Division | 86 French villagers massacred by 3rd Panzergrenadier Division |
| Second Saint-Julien massacre | 10 September 1944 | Saint-Julien-de-Crempse | 17 | French resistance | 17 Wehrmacht prisoners of war executed by villagers as revenge for first massacre |

## Post-War

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| 14 July 1953 demonstration | 14 July 1953 | Paris | 7 (+50 demonstrators, 16 police wounded) | French police | Seven people, including 6 Algerians, killed by French police |
| 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing | 18 June 1961 | Blacy, Marne | 24–28 (+132–170 injured) | Organisation armée secrète | Train derailed by OAS explosive, killing up to 28. |
| Paris massacre of 1961 | 17 October 1961 | Paris | 40 (government sources) ~200 (opposition sources) | French police | Algerian demonstrators killed by French police. |
| The Charonne Metro Station Massacre | 8 February 1962 | Charonne | 9 | French police | CGT Trade union members and communists killed by French police |
| Marseille bar massacre | 3 October 1978 | Marseille | 10 | Armed gunmen | Organized crime war |
| Sofitel massacre | 5 August 1983 | Avignon | 7 | Robbers | Four luxury hotel employees and three customers killed by robbers |
| Ille-et-Vilaine massacre | 19 June 1985 | Ille-et-Vilaine | 7 | Guy Martel | spree killing |
| Luxiol massacre | 12 July 1989 | Luxiol | 14 | Christian Dornier | spree killing, 3 family members and random inhabitants |
| Besançon massacre | 1 July 1992 | Besançon | 7 (5 wounded) | Franck Zoritch | 7 people killed by Franck Zoritch |
| Cuers massacre | 24 September 1995 | Cuers | 16 | Éric Borel | spree killing, 3 family members and random inhabitants, perpetrator committed suicide. |
| Tours massacre | 29 October 2001 | Tours | 4 (7 wounded) | Jean-Pierre Roux-Durrafourt | 4 people killed by Jean-Pierre Roux-Durraffourt |
| Nanterre massacre | 27 March 2002 | Nanterre | 9 (+19 injured) | Richard Durn | spree killing, perpetrator committed suicide. |
| 2012 Midi-Pyrénées massacre | 19 March 2012 | Midi-Pyrénées region | 7 (+5 injured) | Mohammed Merah | A French radical Islamist man attacks a Jewish school, he murders 3 young children and a rabbi at the school, and also kills 3 French soldiers. |
| Annecy shootings | 5 September 2012 | Chevaline, Haute-Savoie | 4 | Unknown | 3 Britons and 1 Frenchman killed in shooting. |
| 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre | 7 January 2015 | Paris | 12 (+11 injured) | Chérif and Saïd Kouachi | Two French radical Islamist brothers attack an office, they murder 11 at the office and kill a French police officer on the street. |
| 2015 Porte de Vincennes massacre | 9 January 2015 | Paris | 5 (+11 injured) | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | A French radical Islamist man attacks a Jewish supermarket and murders 4, a French policewoman is also killed on the street the previous day. |
| Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberate crash | 24 March 2015 | Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 150 | Andreas Lubitz | Andreas Lubitz, the German co-pilot, deliberately crashed the plane on the French Alps, killing all passengers and crew. |
| November 2015 Paris attacks | 13 November 2015 | Paris | 130 (+368 injured) | ISIL | Eight radical Islamists men of ISIL perform coordinated attacks upon the French public at various locations in Paris using assault rifles and explosives; |
| 2016 Nice truck attack | 14 July 2016 | Nice | 86 (+434 injured) | Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel | A Tunisian/French radical Islamist man attacks the French public celebrating Bastille Day, he drives a 19 tonne cargo truck through the public on the street thereby killing indiscriminately. |
| Carcassonne and Trèbes attack | 23 March 2018 | Trèbes and Carcassonne | 4 (+15 injured) | Redouane Lakdim | Islamist terrorist Redouane Lakdim shoots and stabs four people to death. |
| 2018 Strasbourg attack | 11 December 2018 | Strasbourg | 5 (+12 injured) | Chérif Chekatt (29 years old) | Islamist terrorist Chérif Chekatt shoots five people to death with a revolver and injures several people by stabbing with a knife. Chekatt was killed 2 days later by the police, after a razzia in Strasbourgs district Neudorf. He was shot after opening fire on several police officers. |
| February 2019 Paris fire | 5 February 2019 | Paris | 10 (+36 injured) | Unknown | Arson at an apartment block. |
| Paris police headquarters stabbing | 3 October 2019 | Paris | 4 (+2 injured) | Mickaël Harpon | Police employee stab four colleagues to death. |
| Toulouse summer 2020 attacks | 13 July 2020 - 7 September 2020 | Toulouse | 5 (+3 injured) | Unknown | 1 (+1 injured) in September, 2 (+2 injured) in August, 2 in July. |