Note 651 — Chapter XIII · THE FESTIVAL OF BLOOD. [August and September, 1572.]
Reading edition
Mém. authentiques de Jacques Nompar de Caumont: ed. by Marquis de la Grange, 8vo. Paris, 1843. Voltaire in his poetry adopts Mezeray’s account, that the father and his two sons lay in the same bed; that two were killed, and the third saved as by a miracle: but in his notes to the Henriade accepts the true version. De Thou and Sismondi also adopt the erroneous story.