courtas

Updated: July 3, 2025

I was at Cahors in 1580 in the great street fight; and there women were killed, I was with Chatillon nine years later, when he rode through the Faubourgs of Paris, with this very day and his father Coligny in his mind, and gave no quarter. I was at Courtas and Ivry, and more than once have seen prisoners led out to be piked in batches ay, and by hundreds!

Stanley John Weyman - The House of the Wolf; a romance