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The massacre of St. Bartholomew

Note 703 — Chapter XIV · MASSACRE IN THE PROVINCES. [August to October, 1572.]

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The bishop is said to have been in Paris at this time with the court as almoner. This, if true, is fatal to the correctness of the anecdote. I do not lay much stress upon the language of his epitaph: “Contre lesquels [the Huguenots] il ne faisait pas faute de se montrer.”

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