Note 460 — Chapter V
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On December 27, the Protestants congregated in the Faubourg St. Marceau, whereupon the priests and Papists assembled at St. Medard and determined to attack them. One of the Protestant soldiers going to remonstrate was run through. The Protestants who were appointed to guard the assembly, seeing this, ran to his succor, but were driven back by the numbers. Other Protestants coming up put their attackers to rout and forced their way into the church, when the prince de la Roche-sur-Yon, the King’s lieutenant, arrived with a strong force of horse and foot and carried off several to the Châtelet (ibid., No. 783, January 4, 1561; Mém. de Condé, II, 541 ff.; Claude Haton, 179, and note; Arch. cur., IV, 63 ff.; and an article in Mém. de la soc. de l’hist. de Paris, 1886).