ers encourage the Assassins 476
Wonderful Escapes 477
Death of the Philosopher Ramus 478
President Pierre de la Place 479
Regnier and Vezins 480
Escape of Chartres and Montgomery 481
Charles himself fires on them 482
The Massacre continues 484
Pillage of the Rich 485
Orders issued to lay down Arms 487
Little heeded 487
Miracle of the "Cimetiere des Innocents" 488
The King's First Letter to Mandelot 490
Guise throws the Responsibility on the King 491
Charles accepts it on Tuesday morning 492
The "Lit de Justice" 492
Servile Reply of Parliament 493
Christopher De Thou 493
Ineffectual Effort to inculpate Coligny 495
His Memory declared Infamous 496
Petty Indignities 496
A Jubilee Procession 498
Charles declares he will maintain his Edict of Pacification 498
Forced Conversion of Navarre and Conde 499

CHAPTER XIX.

1572.

THE MASSACRE IN THE PROVINCES, AND THE RECEPTION OF THE TIDINGS
ABROAD 501
The Massacre in the Provinces 501
The Verbal Orders 502
Instructions to Montsoreau at Saumur 503
Two Kinds of Letters 504
Massacre at Meaux 505
At Troyes 507
The Great Bloodshed at Orleans 508
At Bourges