At Toulouse, for example, fighting in the streets lasted four days and four hundred persons perished.

It was one of the worst years in the history of France.

A veritable reign of terror prevailed everywhere, and while the crops were destroyed famine stalked throughout the land.

Bands of robbers and ravishers, under the names of Christian parties but savages at heart, put the whole people to ransom and to sack.

Indeed, the Wars of Religion were like hell; the tongue can describe them better than the imagination can conceive them.