On the morrow, being tired of killing, the people began to destroy, and this phase lasted a long time, it being less fatiguing to throw stones about than corpses.

All the convents, all the monasteries, all the houses of the priests and canons were attacked in turn; nothing was spared except the cathedral, before which axes and crowbars seemed to lose their power, and the church of Ste.

Eugenie, which was turned into a powder-magazine.

The day of the great butchery was called "La Michelade," because it took place the day after Michaelmas, and as all this happened in the year 1567 the Massacre of St.Bartholomew must be regarded as a plagiarism.
At last, however, with the help of M.Damville; the Catholics again got the upper hand, and it was the turn of the Protestants to fly.

They took refuge in the Cevennes.