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Visiting Admiral de Coligny, who had been wounded in the hand by Tosinghi, a Florentine partisan of the Guises, two days before the massacre of 24 August. The king disliked the house of Guise, of whose avarice his brother, Francis II, had said, that “they would strip the kings of France of their last shirt.” Charles was, therefore, probably sincere in his regret at the outrage committed upon the venerable Huguenot. Had Coligny been killed by the Florentine, as was intended, the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day would not have occurred. The narrative of the Venetian ambassador of that time fixes the responsibility for both acts upon the queen-mother, with the single participation of the Duc d’Anjou, afterwards Henry III; the Guises gave a silent acquiescence to the plan, which was withheld from the king until the last moment.—La Diplomatie vénitienne, I. 552, 553. / When, on the fatal night of the 24th, the assassins entered his chamber, the wounded admiral said to their leader, “Young