[105] About £600,000 in present-day value. [106] For the first offence a fine; for the second, the lips to be cloven; for the third, the tongue pierced; for the fourth, death. [107] The image was stolen in 1545 and replaced by one of wood. This was struck down in 1551, and the bishop of Paris substituted for it one of marble. [108] One thousand two hundred are said to have suffered death during the month of vengeance. [109] Henry of Guise had succeeded to the dukedom after his father's assassination. [110] Suspicions of poison were entertained by the Huguenots. Jeanne, in a letter to the Marquis de Beauvais, complained that holes were made in her rooms that she might be spied upon. [111] Félibien and Lobïneau, 1725. [112] "That to show pity was to be cruel to them: to be cruel to them was to show pity." [113] The municipality gave presents of money to the archers who had taken part in the massacre, to the watermen who prevented the Huguenots from crossing the Seine, and to grave-diggers for having buried in eight days about 1,100 bodies. [114] Now known as the Galerie d'Apollon. [115] _Ugonottorum strages._ Inscription on the obverse of the medal. [116] Examples of magnificent costumes of the order may be seen in the Cluny Museum. [117] The Duke of Guise was so called from his face being scarred by a wound received at the battle of Dolmans. [118] The king had premonitions of a violent end. One day, after keeping Easter at Negeon with great devotion, he suddenly returned to the Louvre and ordered all the lions, bears, bulls, and other wild animals he kept there for baiting by dogs, to be shot. He had dreamt that he was set upon and eaten by wild beasts. [119] So called derisively, because he was born and brought up in the poor province of Bearn, in the Pyrenees. [120] Her majesty, we learn from the _Mémoires_ of L'Estoile, was of a rich figure, stout, fine eyes and complexion. She used no paint, powder or other _vilanie_. [121] The new palace was situated in the parish of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, the parish church of the Louvre. [122] The north tower was left only partially constructed, and was finished by Louis XIII. [123] By a curious coincidence the widening of the Rue de la Ferronnerie had been ordered just before the king was assassinated. [124] They marked the seven resting-places of the saint as he journeyed to St. Denis after his martyrdom. [125] The Grande Galerie. [126] In the Hôtel de Bourbon, east of the old Louvre, sometimes known as the Petit Bourbon. [127] The church of Notre Dame des Victoires commemorates the victory. [128] The Marché St. Honoré now occupies its site. [129] In 1793 the tomb was desecrated, and the head removed from the body, but in 1863, as an inscription tells, the head was recovered by the historian Duruy, and after seventy years reunited to the trunk. [130] A letter from Paris to Lyons was taxed at two sous: it now costs three.