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The massacre of St. Bartholomew

Note 473 — Chapter X · THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM. [August, 1570, to August, 1572.]

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A “chanson” of this period strikingly prefigures the massacre of 1572. Here is one verse:

Nos capitaines, corporiaux, Ont des corselets tout nouveaux Et des cousteaux Pour Huguenots egorgetter Et une escharpe rouge Que tous voulons porter, etc. Le Roux de Lincy, ii. 295.

In another chanson (No. xvii.) Coligny is threatened:

Pendu à une potence, Paissant de sa chair et peau Le corbeau.

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