Note 297 — Chapter VI · FIRST RELIGIOUS WAR. [1562–1563.]
Reading edition
This edict is computed to have caused the death of 50,000 persons. Jean de Serres (Engl. transl.), p. 703; Mém. de Condé; Brulart’s Journal (13th June, 1562); Gacon, i. 58. Castelnau speaks of the “licence débordée de mal faire.”