CHAPTER XIV.

MASSACRE IN THE PROVINCES.

[August to October, 1572.]

Instructions to the Governors--The Count of Tende--Nantes and Alençon--Massacres at Saumur, Angers, Lyons, Orleans, Troyes, Rouen, Meaux, Bordeaux, and Toulouse--St. Hérem’s letter--The stolen Dispatch--The Governor of Bayonne--The Bishop of Lisieux--Chabot at Arnay-le-Duc--Senlis, Provins, Château-Thierry, Dieppe, and Nismes spared--The Number of Victims--Contemporary Judgments--Dorat’s Panegyric--Jean Le Masle--Pierre Charpentier and Sorbin--Rejoicings at Rome--Exultation of Philip II.--Horror in England--John Knox’s Denunciation--The Emperor Maximilian’s regret 446