It has been said that the Calvinists killed a hundred priests in this city, cutting some of them into pieces, and burning others over a slow fire.

I remember very well every thing which happened upon that abominable day, and I can affirm that not a single priest was injured.

The Huguenots took good care not to injure in any way the living images." This was the case every where.
Catholic and Protestant writers agree that no deeds of violence were committed against man or woman.
It would be also very easy to accumulate a vast weight of testimony as to their forbearance from robbery.

They destroyed for destruction's sake, not for purposes of plunder.
Although belonging to the lowest classes of society, they left heaps of jewellery, of gold and silver plate, of costly embroidery, lying unheeded upon the ground.

They felt instinctively that a great passion would be contaminated by admixture with paltry motives.