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Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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once. Henry submitted; his cousin, a mere boy, wasbolder. Given three days of grace, his resolution yet held out. It is themass, death, or the Bastile, cried the frantic king. Which you please, Condeanswered, so it is not the mass. Charges would have slain him then andthere, but others held back the Toyal hand. But both princes were in the toils,and found it necessary to conform to requirements for the time. On Sunday noon the king ordered the butchering to be stopped, and itceased for that day. But Paris had had a taste of blood; the human tiger wasroused, and wanted more. Next morning the bells rang out again, and thehorrid business was resumed. It lasted in full force for two days more, andincidental murdering went on till the week ended. The Huguenots whohad hidden from the first attack were diligently sought for, and little mercyshown to sex or age. Infants, packed in baskets, amid jeering laughter, wereflung over the bridge into the Seine. Little boys not ten years old were seen
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A NOBLEMAN SEEKING REFUGE IN QUEEN MARGARETS CHAMBER. 393 394 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. dragging with cords in triumph along the streets a Huguenot infant torn fromits slaughtered mothers breast. The count of Coconnas, who was afterwardsjustly beheaded, seized thirty persons, imprisoned them, and on their refusal torecant put them to death by slow torture, and enjoyed their agonies. Rene,Catherines perfumer^ who was accused of having poisoned the late queen ofNavarre through a pair of gloves, amused himself by visiting the Protestantsin several prisons, and cutting them with his dagger. Pezen, a butcher, andCruce, a worker in gold, afterwards boasted of having killed in a single day, thefirst a hundred and twenty Huguenots, the other above four hundred; but theseclaims were doubtless beyond the truth. These villains believed what theirpriests told them, that their crimes were acts of pietyr to be liberally rewardedin heaven. INCIDENTS OF THE MASSACRE. The story of those horrid da

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