Note 311 — Chapter VI · FIRST RELIGIOUS WAR. [1562–1563.]
Reading edition
Paris: Cab. Hist. vi. p. 205. Perissin’s vigorous engraving, “Le massacre fait à Tours par la populace, 1562,” represents dead bodies lying naked on the river bank gnawed by dogs and birds; men in boats braining with clubs such as tried to save themselves by swimming, soldiers shooting at them in the water; men tied to trees and disemboweled, etc.