The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

50 jRISE AND PROGRESS OF HUGUENOTS.
introd. domestics were all slain. The slaughter now
1572. began in all parts of the city. Marshal Tavannes
was heard to shout, 'Elll, KJLll! Bleeding
is as wholesome in August as in May.' '^
Henry of Navarre and Conde were hurried by
soldiers into the presence of King Charles, and
as they passed on from the Louvre where they
were lodging saw several of their gentlemen
murdered before their eyes on the streets.
The King ordered them with oaths to abjure
their religion. They declined. With his eyes
flashing with rage, he bawled out to them,
**The Mass, or death, or the bastile.^' They
abjured, and were put under guard. Charles
himself was seen at the windows of his palace
with a musket in his hands, and was heard to
cry, "Kill! Kill! you Huguenots." The massacre
was kept up through the day. The headless
body of Coligny was dragged through the
streets of the city, then thrown into the Seine,
and finally taken out and hanged by the feet
upon the gallows, and a fire kindled under it.
The King and his court went later to see the
mutilated body. One of the courtiers remarked,
"It smells ill." Charles, the King,
replied: "The body of a dead enemy always
smells well." In the several days of excitement
and pellmell, Marshal Montgomery took
down the abused body, and sent it to Montauban
for interment. A description of this massacre
is given by De Thou, as follows: "The
very streets and passages resounded with the
groans of the dying and of those who were
about to be murdered. The bodies of the slain
were thrown out of the windows, and with
them the courts and chambers of the houses
were filled. The dead bodies of others were
dragged through the streets; and the blood