ippa d'Aubigne are, perhaps, too moderate in respectively stating the
number as 2,000 and 3,000. On the whole, it appears to me, the
contribution of Paris to the massacre of the Huguenots may be set down
with the greatest probability at between 4,000 and 5,000 persons of all
ages and conditions. Von Botzheim, who estimates the total at 8,000 (F. W.
Ebeling, Archivalische Beitraege, p. 120), makes 500 of these to be women
(Ibid., p. 119).

[1054] In other letters Charles had even the effrontery to represent the
King of Navarre as having been in like danger with his brothers and
himself. See Eusebii Philadelphi Dialog. (1574), i. 45: "se quidem metu
propriae salutis in arcem Luparam (the Louvre) compulsum illic se
continuisse, una cum fratre charissimo Rege Navarrae, et dilectissimo
Principe Condensi, ut in communi periculo eundem fortunae exitum
experirentur!"

[1055] Correspondance du roi Charles IX. et du sieur de Mandelot, 39-41.
Letter to the Governor of Burgundy, _apud_ Mem. de l'estat, _ubi sup._,
133-135.

[1056] It was undoubtedly with the object of showing that they were not
the prime movers in the massacre, or, as the author of the Mem. de l'estat
expresses himself, that they had no particular quarrel save with Admiral
Coligny, that Henry of Guise and his uncle actually rescued a few
Huguenots from the hands of those who were about to put them to death.
Reveille-Matin, 188; Memoires de l'estat, 150.

[1057] Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 154, from Reveille-Matin, 192; De
Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 597, 598; Euseb. Philad. Dial., i. 47.

[1058] It was while Charles was on his way to the Palais de Justice that a
gentleman in his train, and not far from him, was recognized as being a
Protestant, and was killed. The king, hearing the disturbance, turned
around; but, on being informed that it was a Huguenot whom they were
putting to death, lightly said: "Let us go on. Would to God that he were
the last!" Reveille-Matin, 194 (copied in Mem. de l'estat, 157); Euseb.
Philad. Dial., i. 50.

[1059] De Thou, whom I have chiefly followed, iv. (liv. lii.) 599; Tocsain
contre les massacreurs, 142; Reveille-Matin, 193, 194; Euseb. Phil. Dial.,
i. 49; Mem. de l'estat, 156; Jean de Serres (1575), iv., fol. 43;
Capilupi, 45; Relation of Olaegui, secretary of Don Diego de Cuniga,
Spanish ambassador at Paris, to be laid before Philip II., Simancas MSS.,
_apud_ Bulletins de l'Acad. Roy. des Sciences, etc., de Belgique, vol.
xvi. (