Note 1540 — Chapter XV

At Blois not only the Huguenots were not mistreated but the city became a city of refuge (D’Aubigné, III, 344, note 6). The Mayor of Nantes refused to carry out the orders for massacre (Bulletin de la Soc. du prot. franç., I, 59). Hotman was saved from the massacre at Bourges by his students; on the massacre at Troyes see the relation in Arch. cur., VII, 287; and for that at Lyons an article by Puyroche in Bulletin de la Soc. du prot. franç., XVIII, 305, 353, 401; for Normandy, ibid., VI, 461; Revue retrospective, XII, 142 (Lisieux); on the massacre at Rouen, Floquet, Hist. du parlement de Normandie, III, 126 ff.; on the massacre at Bordeaux see Arch. de la Gironde, VIII, 337. De Thou, Book LIII, says there were 264 victims. On the massacre at Toulouse see Bull. de la Soc. du prot. franç., August 15, 1886; Hist. du Languedoc, V, 639. On the non-execution of the massacre in Burgundy see Bull. de la Soc. du prot. franç., IV, 164, and XIV, 340 (documents). The reason for this leniency was the nearness of Burgundy to the frontier.