Note 645 — Chapter XIII · THE FESTIVAL OF BLOOD. [August and September, 1572.]
Reading edition
“De laquelle ce prince giboyait de la fenêtre,” ed. 1626, p. 548. In his poem of Les Tragiques he refers to the same report, using the same characteristic expression:
Ce roy, non juste roy, mais juste harquebusier, Giboyait aux passans trop tardif à noyer, Vantant ses coups heureux. Les Fers, p. 240.
This paints the king firing on the yet living bodies as they floated down the river. Agrippa is not an authority for the fact; but it is something to show that the report existed so early. I am told that a plate of the time represents this window as walled up. If this be true, why was it closed?