Note 1541 — Chapter XV
Reading edition
The contemporary literature on the massacre is given by M. Felix Bourquelot, editor of the Mém. de Claude Haton in a long note in II, 673-76. Summarized, these opinions are the following: 1. The massacre was done in order to avert a massacre by the Huguenots, after the wounding of Coligny. This was the belief of Marguerite of Navarre (Mémoires, ed. Guessard, 264).