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The massacre of St. Bartholomew

Note 286 — Chapter VI · FIRST RELIGIOUS WAR. [1562–1563.]

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In spite of the disarming edicts, the arms had not been given up, the Huguenots retaining theirs in some districts. Accordingly, on 28th April, 1562, the king wrote to De la Mothe Gondrin, ordering the arms to be restored to the Catholics, “pour leur sûreté et conservation, leur défendant néanmoins très-expressement, de par moy, de n’en mal user, et de n’entreprendre aucune chose de mauvais, sous peine d’être punis et châtiés exemplairement.” Ordinances and letters of Charles IX. in Archives of Lyons.

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