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* dmier, vi., 309 ; Discours dcs troubles, June 5, 1565. t “Le vicaira ventral, Joan Feboran, eat livre aux insultcs dc la. populace, traino avoc une grosso corde et precipitd dans le putts; il avail voulu mourir a la place do I’cvvque. Le massacre avail commence d ome heurcs du soir; il dura touto la nuit et continua le lendemain. Ce jour-la, toutes les maisons dos Catb.oliques sont recherchees; ceux qu’on arrete sont egorges et jetes au putts. Bien qu’il ait plus do sept toiscs do profondcur et quatre pieds do diametre, il est presque comble. dc cadavres; Veau, melee de sang, y surnage; dos gemissements ctouffes s’en exhalent; cent cinquante, suivant le suns, trois cents, suivant les autres, furent egorgds.” — Revue des Quest. Hist., i., 45. : - 1 Baragnon, Histoire des Nimes, tom ii. See also Vaissette, Histoire Gen. dc Languedoc, v., page 298: and Menard, Histoire do la ville de Xismes, tom y., page 16. Tins last-named writer states that most of the authorities in Nismes were secretly favorable to the Huguenots, and hence permitted them to rage with impunity against the Catholics. _ § This foot of Briquemaut wearing a necklace of the ears of the priests whom he had massacred is mentioned by all the contemporary writers. The same savage ornament was also worn by another Huyuetiot in 1562, but his name is not given.— White, page 248.