ntent with greatly injuring the famous church of Our Lady, the
Huguenot populace, inflamed by the indiscretion of the priests, desecrated
the monuments of the brave Dunois, and of Louis the Eleventh and his
queen. Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 23. According to the author of the
"Horribles cruautes des Huguenots en France" (Cimber et Danjou, vi. 304),
they even burned the bones of Louis; nor did they respect those of the
ancestors of the Prince of Conde.

[89] "Monsieur, ayez patience que j'aie abattu cette idole, et puis que je
meure, s'il vous plait."

[90] "Comme etant ce fait plutot oeuvre de Dieu que des hommes." Hist.
eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 20. "L'impetuosite des peuples etait telle
contre les images, qu'il n'etait possible aux hommes d'y resister." Ibid.
ii. 23.

[91] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 20-22.

[92] "Ledict moys," says Jehan de la Fosse in his journal (p. 47), "des
citoyens de Sens tuerent beaucoup de huguenots, voyant que monsieur le
connetable avoict faict bruler Popincourt."

[93] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 242-245; Jean de Serres, ii. 40; De
Thou, iii. 144. The massacre commenced on Sunday, April 12th (not 14th, as
the Hist. eccles. states), and was continued the next day or two.
According to De Serres, the horrors of Sens seemed to efface those of
Vassy itself. Read the really terrible paragraph on the subject in the
contemporary "Remonstrance au Roy sur le faict des Idoles abbatues et
dejettees hors des Temples" (Mem. de Conde, iii. 355-364), beginning "Ou
sont les meurtres, les boucheries des hommes passes au fil de l'espee, par
l'espace de neuf jours en la ville de Sens?" The address to the Cardinal
of Guise is not less severe than the address to his brother in the famous
"_Tigre_": "Te suffisoit-il pas, Cardinal, que le monde sceust que tu es
Atheiste, Magicien, Necromantien, sans le publier davantage, et faire
ouvrir en pleine rue les femmes grosses pour voir le siege de leurs
enfans?" P. 360. White (Mass. of St. Bartholomew, 200) confounds in his
account the two brother cardinals, and makes _Lorraine_ to have been
Archbishop of Sens.

[94] Letter of Conde of April 19th, Mem. de Conde, iii. 300, 301; Hist.
eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 246, 247; J. de Serres, ii. 40-42.

[95] Throkmorton to Cecil, April 10, 1562. State Paper Office.

[96] I will not sully these pages even by a reference to the unnatural and
beastly crimes which De Thou and other trustworthy historians ascr