Note 335 — Chapter VI · FIRST RELIGIOUS WAR. [1562–1563.]
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Jean de Serres puts a similar reply into the mouth of the Duke of Guise, when a complaint was made to him that, in these “uncivil tumults” many Catholics were slain: “There is no remedy,” he made answer; “we have too much people in France. I will deal so as victuals shall be good cheap.” Hist. p. 703 (transl.).