. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. nearly complete, but the young king still hesitated to issue tin- fatal order. • Mis mother now used every art in her power to make him placehimself boldly with the Guises. \- he was kin-, she wished the sanc-tion of a royal edict to do her bloody work. With this the preparations tion of the Huguenots would be complete. Her appealsat length so wrought upon his mind that he exi itedly exclaimea• Well, then, kill them! kill them all. that not a single Huguenol may This frantic remark was eon-trued as an order. is appointed to begi
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. nearly complete, but the young king still hesitated to issue tin- fatal order. • Mis mother now used every art in her power to make him placehimself boldly with the Guises. \- he was kin-, she wished the sanc-tion of a royal edict to do her bloody work. With this the preparations tion of the Huguenots would be complete. Her appealsat length so wrought upon his mind that he exi itedly exclaimea• Well, then, kill them! kill them all. that not a single Huguenol may This frantic remark was eon-trued as an order. is appointed to begin on St. Bartholomews I fl tolling of a bell. Tin- young king w fully nervous a. 1 ? d during the preceding day. Just before the fatal hour, hi- con* ? d his better feelings, that In- despatched orders !| de Guise, countermanding the slaughter. The duke re- is he was in the act of mounting his horse to lead the • ??/.? Uroptardl It is too late! said the duke to the band at on< e r ay. It \ still night, August 24. 1572. The defenceless llugue-. COLIGNY. UPPER NORMANDY. 245 nots were unsuspicious of danger, while armed assassins were lurkingin every house. At last the heavy clang of a great bell fell on thebreathless evening air. and the slaughter began. All that summer night the streets ran with blood. The youngand the old, the daughter, the mother, the nobleman and the beggar,— all who bore the name of Huguenot, — were cut off without were spared. Even women murdered women, and children, it issaid, impelled by the maddening example, applied the dagger to otherchildren in their beds. The streets of Paris ran with blood. Fromthirty to seventy thousand persons were slain in the city and in thetowns of France on this night and a few days following it. The new Queen of Navarre, Marguerite de Valois, had gone tobed on the fatal eve, by the express order of Catharine. Just as shewas going to sleep, she says, a man knocked with hands and feet ather door, shoutin
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