A Notre-Dame de Pitie, situated at the Hotel-Dieule-Comte, was found with its head broken.

This event excites to madness the Catholic population.

The persecutions continue." Many people emigrated for fear of the stake.
"From August, 1552, to the 6th of January, 1555," says the chronicler, "Troyes loses in consequence of exile, probably voluntary, a certain number of its best inhabitants," and he names thirteen families with the style and title of "nobleman." He adds, "There is scarcely a month in the year when there are not burned two or three heretics at Paris, Meaux, and Troyes, and sometimes more than a dozen." Troyes contained, at that time, says M.Boutiot, eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty-five inhabitants, counting five persons to a household.

[Histoire de la Ville de Troyes, t.iii.

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