Note 692 — Chapter XIV · MASSACRE IN THE PROVINCES. [August to October, 1572.]
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There is a curious story of an apothecary who discovered that the fat of the bodies was valuable and would fetch a high price, and of a general scramble for the bodies in the river, which were dragged out, that the fat might be extracted and sold. Mém. État de France, i. 263 b.