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Page 105
... Brantome and confirmed by Voltaire , on the authority of Marshal Tessé , who had heard the story from the page employed to load the fowling - piece he used on the occasion . Several contemporary authors mention it as a report , and add ...
... Brantome and confirmed by Voltaire , on the authority of Marshal Tessé , who had heard the story from the page employed to load the fowling - piece he used on the occasion . Several contemporary authors mention it as a report , and add ...
Page 107
... Brantome , apud Castelnau , iii . 5 . + Digges . 279 . Journal de l'Etoile , apud Petitot , xlv . - Satyre Menippér , i . 120 . § De Serres , iv . 43 . Journal de l'Estoile , 85 . Mem . de l'Etat . ** Mem . de Villeroy , iv . 330. Ed ...
... Brantome , apud Castelnau , iii . 5 . + Digges . 279 . Journal de l'Etoile , apud Petitot , xlv . - Satyre Menippér , i . 120 . § De Serres , iv . 43 . Journal de l'Estoile , 85 . Mem . de l'Etat . ** Mem . de Villeroy , iv . 330. Ed ...
Page 114
... Capilupi pretends . that * Histoire des Martyrs , 779 , 781 , 788 , 791 . + Caveyrac , xxxvii . Thuanus , 1. 145 . Economics , 1. 14. folio . 3000 were slain in a few hours ; Brantome makes 114 June Lingard's History of England .
... Capilupi pretends . that * Histoire des Martyrs , 779 , 781 , 788 , 791 . + Caveyrac , xxxvii . Thuanus , 1. 145 . Economics , 1. 14. folio . 3000 were slain in a few hours ; Brantome makes 114 June Lingard's History of England .
Page 115
Or Critical Journal. 3000 were slain in a few hours ; Brantome makes the total 4000 ; De Serres and the Memoires de l'Etat increase the num- ber to 10,000 ; and Davila , in giving the same estimate , adds , that among them were 500 ...
Or Critical Journal. 3000 were slain in a few hours ; Brantome makes the total 4000 ; De Serres and the Memoires de l'Etat increase the num- ber to 10,000 ; and Davila , in giving the same estimate , adds , that among them were 500 ...
Page 123
... Brantome , even if it were true , is ridiculous . It might have been uncivil in the Hugonots not to stop their psalm - singing while the Duke was hearing mass ; but it was no reason for his lacqueys and pages to insult them , nor for ...
... Brantome , even if it were true , is ridiculous . It might have been uncivil in the Hugonots not to stop their psalm - singing while the Duke was hearing mass ; but it was no reason for his lacqueys and pages to insult them , nor for ...
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