Note 700 — Chapter XIV · MASSACRE IN THE PROVINCES. [August to October, 1572.]
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Félice in a paragraph of a few lines manages to include almost as many mistakes. The arrests did not take place on August 31; the number of victims was not 300, and d’Affis gave no order for their execution. The magistrates, having no regular police or armed force at their disposal, were unable to resist the mob and the soldiers. Archives of Toulouse, ad ann.