The St.Bartholomew had just taken place on the 24th of August.

[_Histoire de la Ville de Troyes,_ by H.Boutiot, t.iii.

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25.] Where they happened to be the stronger, and where they had either vengeance to satisfy or measures of security to take, the Protestants were not more patient or more humane than the Catholics.

At Nimes, in 1567, they projected and carried out, in the town and the neighboring country, a massacre in which a hundred and ninety-two Catholics perished; and several churches and religious houses were damaged or completely destroyed.