French nobleman and admiral and Huguenot leader (1519-1572)

Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day: Gaspard de Coligny is stepping out of his house about to be killed by a marauding crowd. Coloured aquatint by J-B. Morret after A.L.F. Sergent.

An answere to the examination that is sayde to haue bene made of one named Iohn de Poltrot, calling himself the Lord of Merey, vpon the death of the late Duke of Guyse by the Lord of Chastillon admyrall of Fraunce, and others named in the saide examination. At Caen. 1562.

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